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Hydrogen bonds, because when replication is completed, each new DNA molecule consists of one new nucleotide chain joinged by hydrogen bonds to a nucleotide chain from the original DNA molecule. Purines and pyrimidines are joined by hydrogen bonds too. The covalent bonds are found in the sugar-phosphate backbones, which are the same through out DNA molecules.

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Importance of Hydrogen bonds - they can be easily broken during replication process by the enzyme helicase, which unwinds the double helix.

The Hydrogen bonds maintain a complementarity structure between the two opposite DNA strands

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Base pairing is when two bases that are complementary to each other bind (through hydrogen bonding). A pairs with T and G with C (in DNA). There are 2 strands and these strands are complementary to each other so if one strand is ATGC the other strand is TACG. When DNA replication occurs, the two strands which are bound together, get split into singles strands. Then an enzyme called DNA polymerase comes and attaches to the single stand and adds its complementary base pair forming new replicated DNA.Note: this is a very general version of DNA replication, there is so much more that happens.

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I'm presuming we are talking about base pairs of DNA - there are 3 hydrogen bonds between G and C and 2 H bonds between A and T. As we know G and A are purines and T and C are pyrimidines, so these help maintain equal distance b/w the 3'-5' and 5'-3' ( anti parallel ) chains of DNA.

DNA is a double helical structure and the H bonds basically help in keeping the anti parallel chains together. And as DNA and its structure is the basics of living organism, its very important for it to be in that form. :)

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Hydrogen bonds help in keeping together two complementary nucleotides in a DNA double strand.

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Mismatches in DNA replication would be due to the fact of incorrect base pairing and thus so the answer is hydrogen bonds, since these are responsible for base pairing

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No the hydrogen fuses with the water vapors.

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How is base pairing involved in DNA replication?

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Why is complementary base pairing crucial to replication?

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Why is DNA replication semi-conserbribe?

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What is the DNA Replication?

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