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Base Pair

nounid 24645·updated May 18, 2026
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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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Variants

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

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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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