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Base Pair

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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

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Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Base Pairs
possessive
Base Pair's
pluralpossessive
Base Pairs'