NUCLEIC ACID BASE


Meaning of NUCLEIC ACID BASE in English

one of the components that make up the genetic material; in combination with sugar and phosphate groups they form nucleotides, the "building blocks" of DNA and RNA. There are two types of bases, purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrmidines (cytosine, thymine and uracil). Bases are complementary and can bind with their counterpart in a process known as base-pairing.

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