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base pair

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noun
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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type of:
base nucleotide

part of:
deoxyribonucleic acid desoxyribonucleic acid dna

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