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noun
A set of two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA or RNA strands that are connected with hydrogen bonds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: molecular biology
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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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: nucleotide, base
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