Definition of Base pair (bp)

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Base pair (bp)

The term 'Base pair (bp)' as it applies to the area of gnome research can be defined as 'Two nitrogenous bases (adenine and thymine or guanine and cytosine) held together by weak bonds. Two strands of DNA are held together in the shape of a double helix by the bonds between base pairs'.

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