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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
base pair

▶noun Biochemistry a pair of complementary bases on opposite strands of a double-stranded nucleic acid molecule, consisting of adenine pairs with thymine or uracil and cytosine pairs with guanine.

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