Definition of base pair Base pair
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What does base pair mean?
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| base pair - 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 | ||
| nucleotide, base a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) | ||
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- base pair (Noun)
In molecular biology , two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA or RNA strands that are connected via hydrogen bonds.
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The building blocks of the DNA double helix and contribute to the folded structure of both DNA and RNA.
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In molecular biology, two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA or RNA strands that are connected by hydrogen bonds are called a base pair (often abbreviated bp).
In the "Watson-Crick base pairing", adenine (A) forms a base pair with thymine (T), and guanine (G) with cytosine (C) in DNA. In RNA, thymine is replaced by uracil (U). But there is also non-Watson-Crick base pairing with other hydrogen bonding patterns, especially in RNA.
