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English noun: base pair | |||
| 1. | base pair (substance) 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | base, nucleotide | ||
| Part meronym | deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA | ||
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