Term: base pair: 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
Candidate hypernym: nucleotide: a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) → 1
Candidate hypernym: decompression: relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) → 0
Candidate hypernym: wide-angle lens: a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length); produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery → 0
Candidate hypernym: aspergillus: genus of common molds causing food spoilage and some pathogenic to plants and animals → 0
Candidate hypernym: scrap iron: iron to be melted again and reworked → 0
Candidate hypernym: yearling: an animal in its second year → 0
Candidate hypernym: shunt: a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current → 0
Candidate hypernym: mother figure: a woman who evokes the feelings usually reserved for a mother → 0
Candidate hypernym: brush: a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) → 0
Candidate hypernym: encephalogram: an X ray of the brain made by replacing spinal fluid with a gas (usually oxygen) to improve contrast → 0
Candidate hypernym: fastnacht: doughnut traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday → 0