base pair
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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
Types & categories
- nucleotide hypernym
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- deoxyribonucleic acid part holonym
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| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | deoxyribonucleic acid |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | nucleotide |