Question

The energy necessary to form individual base pairs is not quite affected by adjacent base pairs.

(a) True

(b) False

The question was posed to me in an international level competition.

This interesting question is from RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Methods topic in portion RNA Structure Prediction of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

The correct answer is (b) False

The best I can explain: The energy necessary to form individual base pairs is influenced by adjacent base pairs through helical stacking forces. This is known as co-operativity in helix formation.