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: material: the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object → 1
Candidate hypernym: asparagaceae: one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae: includes genera Asparagus and sometimes Ruscus → 0
Candidate hypernym: hub-and-spoke: a system of air transportation in which local airports offer air transportation to a central airport where long-distance flights are available → 0
Candidate hypernym: haying: the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder → 0
Candidate hypernym: spectacle: a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself → 0
Candidate hypernym: hot pants: skin-tight very short pants worn by young women as an outer garment → 0
Candidate hypernym: armor plate: specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire → 0
Candidate hypernym: bread knife: a knife used to cut bread → 0
Candidate hypernym: liquid: the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility → 0
Candidate hypernym: gram molecule: the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites → 0
Candidate hypernym: prix de rome: an annual prize awarded by the French government in a competition of painters and artists and sculptors and musicians and architects; the winner in each category receives support for a period of study in Rome → 0