A pair of complementary bases in a double-stranded nucleic acid molecule, consisting of a purine in one strand linked by hydrogen bonds to a pyrimidine in the other. Cytosine always pairs with guanine, and adenine with thymine (in DNA) or uracil (in RNA).
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This package contains a number of substitution models for nucleotides and RNA base pairs.
Thymine glycol base pairs with A and results in a C T transition.
Instead, it can move within the transcription complex several base pairs upstream or downstream along the template strand.
In DNA models of double strand breaking the base pairs are the units situated on the sites of a linear lattice.
The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs of DNA, parcelled out into 24 chromosomes.
Definition of base pair in US English:
base pair
noun
Biochemistry
A pair of complementary bases in a double-stranded nucleic acid molecule, consisting of a purine in one strand linked by hydrogen bonds to a pyrimidine in the other. Cytosine always pairs with guanine, and adenine with thymine (in DNA) or uracil (in RNA).
〔生化〕碱基对
Example sentencesExamples
In DNA models of double strand breaking the base pairs are the units situated on the sites of a linear lattice.
This package contains a number of substitution models for nucleotides and RNA base pairs.
Instead, it can move within the transcription complex several base pairs upstream or downstream along the template strand.
The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs of DNA, parcelled out into 24 chromosomes.
Thymine glycol base pairs with A and results in a C T transition.