base-pairing

Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.
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If ISIS “came into a base and killed hundreds of troops, then people would ask a lot more questions.”
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Huckabee will also need to establish a reliable fundraising base, something that up until now has proved to be elusive.
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Both are considered marginal figures in the House GOP caucus and have no real base of support for their respective bids.
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In the weeks following the Sept. 9, car bombing at the Iranian base, Iran raided a village in the Pakistani district of Chagai.
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The upper part of the stem is usually unbranched, but whorls of branches occur towards the base.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
Many adults, it is said, hardly have a rudiment of this feeling, pairing the most fiercely antagonistic tints.
Children's Ways|James Sully
It is a vile world because it is an under-educated world, unreasonable, suspicious, base and ferocious.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
In ordinary work, however, it is safer to base the distinction upon size than upon structure.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
If he married that base-born creature Dorothy, no respectable person would ever enter the house.
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie

British Dictionary definitions for base-pairing

base pairing

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biochem the hydrogen bonding that occurs between complementary nitrogenous bases in the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule

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Scientific definitions for base-pairing

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 DNA/RNA hybrid, and in the complementary pairing of codons and anticodons during the process of translation.

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