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Base pair   /beɪs pɛr/   Listen
Base pair

noun
1.
One of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands; the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA.






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Words linked to "Base pair" :   base, DNA, desoxyribonucleic acid, nucleotide, deoxyribonucleic acid



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