Base Pair

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
BP
Pronunciation
/beɪs pɛr/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Human Genome

Examples in Context

  1. The empirical rules, which take into account the non neighbor interactions between the base pair steps, have been presented to predict the local bending of B DNA.
  2. The base pair ratio, AT : GC, is constant within a species but differs between species.
  3. Researchers have also advocated assessing health risks within ethnic groups based on inherited variations in just one DNA base pair.
  4. Strictly, a base pair is a pair of complementary bases ( i.e. the A : T, G : C and A : U interactions ) held together by hydrogen bonds.
  5. It was demonstrated that the base pair stack within double helical DNA provides an effective medium for charge transfer.

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