base pair

Noun

Meaning

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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Synonyms

RNA DNA translation gene transcription replication mutation nucleotide purine pyrimidine uracil codon double helix adenine cytosine
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Hypernyms

base nucleotide

Close letter words and terms

base ops base ore base over apex base pair mismatch base pair sequence base pairs