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base pair vs nucleotide

nucleotide vs base pair

base pair and nucleotide both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
base pair Yes No No No
nucleotide Yes No No No
As nouns, nucleotide is a hypernym of base pair; that is, nucleotide is a word with a broader meaning than base pair:
  • base pair: 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
  • nucleotide: a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
Other hypernyms of base pair include base.
base pair (noun) nucleotide (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 a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
Difference between base pair and nucleotide

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