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base pair
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base pair [′bās ‚per]
(cell and molecular biology)
Two nitrogenous bases, one purine and one pyrimidine, that pair in double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid.


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In contrast, people's genomes are about 3 billion base pairs long.
9 billion DNA base pairs, and incorporates a third more data than earlier versions.
The sequencing results show that the Aspergillus oryzae genome has about 38 million base pairs and 12,000 genes.
 
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