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# How to pronounce "base pair" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/bæsɛpɪr/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **ba·se·pair**
- **Parts of Speech**: noun, verb
- **NOUN**: Alternative spelling of base pair.
- **VERB**: To bind separate DNA or RNA sequences by base pairs.

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "base pair" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "He's got a code on him too. And so he binds here and and matches up, you know, base pair to base pair with this region here. And so the transfer RNA that brings in the amino acid is dictated by the code on anti-codon on him and the codon on the RNA. So this is the process by which the the the gene sequence gets"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 30:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDGJiYha8JE&t=1834s)

### Example 2
> "and base pair changes or a piece of chromosome jumps out and goes back in, inserts itself, a lot of different things."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HPv9P7DiVw&t=166s)

### Example 3
> "the base pair content and if you could do that in an experiment you would decode the human the genome in minutes"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 67:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgQMM7dyJ0s&t=4035s)

### Example 4
> "One base pair difference between rats and mice."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 42:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dRXA1_e30o&t=2528s)

### Example 5
> "One base pair difference between hawks and elephants."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 42:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dRXA1_e30o&t=2533s)

### Example 6
> "So that means this copying process, which occurs every cell cycle, it's in a process we call S phase for DNA synthesis, every single base pair in the genome has to be replicated, has to be divided, and it has to be done with extraordinary precision."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 23:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhZvMbNT_qc&t=1394s)

### Example 7
> "either be a 23 base pair spacer or 12 base pair spacer within the Kappa light"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D2x-dhh6Pg&t=371s)

### Example 8
> "so this is the base conjugate acid pair so we have our acid conjugate base pair and base conjugate acid pair super easy right not too bad what do we say before"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 22:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nce9vJx-IME&t=1365s)

### Example 9
> "sequence from base pairing? One of the things about these plasmids that makes them very useful is that their entire base pair sequences is known. So you know everywhere on this"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 13:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUddHabtAzk&t=809s)

### Example 10
> "transcribed one base pair - one codon at a time, when the sequence appears in the messenger RNA,"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 40:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXGL2Kracgs&t=2425s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [base](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/base), [pair](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pair)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "base pair" correctly?
"base pair" is pronounced `/bæsɛpɪr/`. Syllable breakdown: **ba·se·pair**.

### What does "base pair" mean in context?
Alternative spelling of base pair.

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