What does "base pair" mean?

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

Base pair

Common synonyms include: base pairing, base pairing principle, base-pair unit, complement with, complementarity rule, determine sequence complement.

noun

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Noun

1
A set of two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA or RNA strands that are connected with hydrogen bonds.
2
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 wordnet