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nucleotide vs base pair

base pair vs nucleotide

nucleotide and base pair both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
nucleotide Yes No No No
base pair Yes No No No
As nouns, base pair is a hyponym of nucleotide; that is, base pair is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than nucleotide:
  • nucleotide: a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
  • 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 (noun) base pair (noun)
a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) 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
Difference between nucleotide and base pair

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