Base of lung
base of lung
base of lung n.
The lower concave part of the lung that rests upon the convex part of the diaphragm.
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- Base pair
any of the pairs of the hydrogen-bonded purine and pyrimidine bases that form the links between the sugar-phosphate backbones of nucleic acid molecules: the pairs are adenine and thymine in DNA, adenine and uracil in RNA, and guanine and cytosine in both DNA and RNA. base pair n. The pair of nitrogenous bases that connects […]
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the process of binding separate DNA sequences by base pairs. noun (biochem) the hydrogen bonding that occurs between complementary nitrogenous bases in the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule base-pairing The hydrogen bonding of complementary nitrogen bases, one purine and one pyrimidine. Base-pairing occurs between the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or a […]
- Base-pairing rules
constraints imposed by the molecular structure of DNA and RNA on the formation of hydrogen bonds among the four purine and pyrimidine bases such that adenine pairs with thymine or uracil, and guanine pairs with cytosine.