The hydrophobicity of the planar nitrogenous ring structures of a nucleotide, leading to the exclusion of water and stability of DNA, is referred to as:

A. Watson-Crick base pairing.
B. supercoiling.
C. base-stacking interactions.
D. complementarity.
E. polarity.


Answer C

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