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Definitions:
Noun
base pair
Definition: 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
Definition: In molecular biology, two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA or RNA strands that are connected via hydrogen bonds.