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Defenition of the word base pair

    • Defenition of the word base pair

      • The building blocks of the DNA double helix and contribute to the folded structure of both DNA and RNA.
      • 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 urac
      • 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

    Meronymys for the word base pair

      • deoxyribonucleic acid
      • desoxyribonucleic acid
      • DNA

    Hypernyms for the word base pair

      • base
      • nucleotide

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