How to Use base pair in a Sentence

base pair

noun

• Snowshoes are meant to be worn with a base pair of boots.
  — Lauren Levy, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2021
• The mix of mint and lemon with a matcha base pairs well with fresh peaches or madeleines, Schwartz says.
  — Meg Lappe, SELF, 7 Oct. 2017
• There are about 3 billion base pairs in the human genome.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 23 Aug. 2018
• Each time a cell replicates, about 20 base pairs are lost from the telomere, or shoelace cap.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 18 Nov. 2019
• The basic unit of DNA is the base pair, one of the rungs on the twisted ladder that makes up the double helix.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2018
• That’s about 16 billion base pairs — the molecular links of a DNA chain.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2017
• In the second twin, some of her cells will have a four base pair deletion, which will cause a short tail of 10 random amino acids.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2018
• Picture a ladder that twists like a corkscrew, with the sugar and phosphate acting as the side rails and the base pairs acting as the rungs.
  — Ryan Rossotto, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• And in every case, the mutation involved the loss of hundreds to thousands of DNA base pairs.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2019
• So the molecular cause is exactly the same base pair change in a telomerase gene.
  — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2016
• As of now, prime editing can still edit only about 40 base pairs at a time among the billions of pairs in the human genome.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
• Changing the Rules The ability to increase the number of base pairs or amino acids changes the rules of that game entirely.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2018
• The smallest belongs to the common bent-wing bat, at just under 2 billion base pairs.
  — Mark Johnson and Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2023
• Most of them are genetic caused by a single misspelling in the genes out of 3 billion base pairs, one of them is screwed up.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
• The Y chromosome comes in at 59 million base pairs, and that’s among the shortest of a human’s 23 chromosomes.
  — David Ewing Duncan, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• So far even in the virus's most divergent strains scientists have found only 11 base pair changes.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2020
• So far treating sickle cell via base pair editing has only been shown to work in mice, not humans.
  — Leah Rosenbaum, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• The prevailing wisdom said that DNA should have been too riddled with base pair errors to say anything of value about the past.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2019
• This means that the base pair is embedded in a coding gene, as opposed to much of the genome which isn't translated into proteins.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2011
• Adding those base pairs back in the lab made the virus much better at replicating in several cell culture models.
  — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 9 Mar. 2020
• Instead of just focusing on one base pair, A/C/G/T, the method looks at the correlations of bases across a sequence of the chromosome.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2012
• Within those chromosomes are around 3 billion base pairs of DNA.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Dec. 2022
• Today Twist charges nine cents a base pair for DNA, a nearly tenfold decrease from the industry standard a decade ago.
  — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
• Add in another base pair, and the number of potential words increases to 216.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2017
• Each copy of the genome — almost every cell has its own copy — consists of about 3 billion base pairs lined up in the famous double helix structure.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• Procedure Pick a prepared strip of paper (a base pair) and stick one end to one backbone and the other end to the other parallel backbone.
  — Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2018
• Such an altered base pair, known as a tautomer, can quickly jump back to its original arrangement.
  — Lars Fischer, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2022
• Indeed, all the beautiful permutations of the human form — the differences between the tallest and shortest, the brown-eyed and the green-eyed — are explained by just a tiny fraction of those base pairs.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 23 Aug. 2018
• The base pairing that holds the double helix together always involves pairing a one-ringed base with a two-ringed base, which maintains a constant width of the helix.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2019
• Chromosome 2 is the second largest human chromosome, and spans about 243 million building blocks of DNA base pairs.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024