Meaning

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  1. A set of two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA or RNA strands that are connected with hydrogen bonds.

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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; the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA

Translations

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molecular biology: two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA or RNA strands:
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molecular biology: two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA or RNA strands:

Forms

plural: base pairs

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