base_pair
1. [ noun ] (chemistry) 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 ura
Related terms: nucleotide deoxyribonucleic_acid
Similar spelling:   bass_part
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