BASE PAIR
Dictionary entry overview: What does base pair mean? • BASE PAIR (noun)
The noun BASE PAIR has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: BASE PAIR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• 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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Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("base pair" is a kind of...):
nucleotide (a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA))
Holonyms ("base pair" is a part of...):
deoxyribonucleic acid; desoxyribonucleic acid; DNA ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information)
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