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Preferred term

base pair  

Definition

  • [Henderson's] single pair of complement­ary nucleotides from opposite strands of the DNA double helix. The number of base pairs is used as a measure of length of a double-stranded DNA.

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Entry terms

  • based pairing
  • base paired
  • base pairing
  • BP

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  • MS Academic Keywords

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http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20772

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