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
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The human genome contains approximately three billion chemical base pairs. 人类基因组包含大约三十亿个化学碱基对。
This specificity probably resided in the sequence of base pairs along the molecules. 这种专一性可能寄寓在分子的碱基对顺序之中。