Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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base pair | Yes | No | No | No |
nucleotide | Yes | No | No | No |
base pair (noun) | nucleotide (noun) |
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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 | a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) |