base pair
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
The term 'base pair' originated in the field of genetics and was first used in the 1950s to describe the pairing of nucleotide bases in DNA.
مثال
- The DNA molecule consists of many base pairs.
- Adenine always pairs with thymine in a DNA base pair.
- The discovery of the double helix structure of DNA was based on the complementary base pairing of nucleotides.
تعریف انگلیسی
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