<Emphasis Type="Bold">Base Pair</Emphasis> (bp)

Base Pair (bp)

Reference work entry

First Online: 16 July 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6754-9_1591

Refers to hydrogen bonded A = T and G≡C in DNA or A = U in double‐stranded RNA. ( mismatch, mispairing, hydrogen pairing, universal bases, Watson‐Crick model)

Cite this entry as:: (2008) Base Pair (bp). In: Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Informatics. Springer, Dordrecht