HyperDic: base_pair

English > 1 sense of the expression base pair:
NOUNsubstancebase pairone 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
English > base pair: 1 sense > noun 1, substance
MeaningOne 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.
Part ofdeoxyribonucleic 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
Broadernucleotide, baseA phosphoric ester of a nucleoside
Catalanparell de bases

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