Engelsk substantiv: base pair | |||
1. | base pair (om masse eller substans) 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 | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | base, nucleotide | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede uttrykkene | deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA | ||