WordNet: 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

• hypernym base, nucleotide

• part holonym DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid

base pair

• (suomi) emäspari (synonyymi)