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Base in DNA: A unit of the DNA. There are 4 bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), and cytosine (C). The sequence of bases (for example, CAG) is the genetic code.
There are 5 commonly-occurring bases: Adenine, Cytosine, and Guanine are found in both DNA and RNA. Thymine is found only in DNA, and Uracil only in RNA. Note that there *are* many other kinds of nucleotide bases, which perform functions in tRNA and rRNA, such as structural functions in tRNA loops. These do not perform any coding function, however.