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basepairing

basepairing is the present participle and gerund of basepair.

Meaning of basepair

Verb

basepair (third-person singular simple present basepairs, present participle basepairing, simple past and past participle basepaired)

  1. To bind separate DNA or RNA sequences by base pairs.

Questions about basepairing

What is basepairing the present participle and gerund of?
Basepairing is the present participle and gerund of basepair.

Words near basepairing in the dictionary

  1. basenji
  2. basenjis
  3. baseonemoside
  4. basepair
  5. basepaired
  6. basepairing
  7. basepairs
  8. basepath
  9. basepaths
  10. basepeak
  11. basepeaks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: basepairing (page history and authors); basepair (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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