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Base pair

Base pair Meaning & Definition
Base pair Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Base pair?

[n] 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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See Also | deoxyribonucleic acid | desoxyribonucleic acid | DNA | nucleotide

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