base pair
NOUN
9 LETTERS · STARTS WITH B
base pair is a valid 9-letter word worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
B3A1S1E1P3A1I1R1
3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 =12 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 24TRIPLE WORD → 36
MEANING
What does base pair mean?
NOUN · 1 SENSE
1
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.
BROADER