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1. n. 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 Source: wordnet

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adenine cytosine DNA guanine molecule pairs RNA strands base bases bonds chemical complementary connect hydrogen joined thymine uracil

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