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Base Pair.
Base Pair - as a noun
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
Example Sentences
"Adenine and thymine form a base pair in DNA."
"The base pairs hold the two strands of the DNA double helix together."
"There are always equal amounts of adenine and thymine base pairs in a DNA molecule."
"Cytosine and guanine are another type of base pair found in DNA."
"The sequence of base pairs forms the genetic code in DNA."
