stars and stripes 2 italics the national anthem of the united states of america based on a poem written by francis scott key on september 14 1814 and set by him to the melody of the english song to anacreon in heaven officially adopted by the u s congress in 1931 examples from the web for star spangled banner expand
The two strands of DNA are held together by weak hydrogen bonds (remember, something must hold them together!) between the nitrogenous bases. The interesting (and very important) aspect of the Watson-Crick model is that these hydrogen bonds are base specific.
Every nucleotide in the coding strand has a complementary nucleotide in the other strand, called the template strand. The Watson-Crick pairs are the standard DNA and RNA base pairs. In DNA, adenine bonds to thymine while guanine bonds with cytosine. The same pairs apply to RNA, except that uracil replaces thymine.