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NOUN
- a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
How To Use thymine In A Sentence
- Any of several basic compounds derived from or structurally related to pyrimidine, especially the nucleic acid constituents uracil, cytosine, and thymine.
- The strands consist of sugar and phosphate groups, the sugars being attached to a base - adenine, thymine, guanine, or cytosine.
- Thymine dioxygenase 1.14.11.6 1 Nomenclature EC number 1.14.11.6 Systematic name thymine,2-oxoglutarate: oxygen oxidoreductase (7-hydroxylating) Recommended name thymine dioxygenase Synonyms 5-hydroxy-methyluracil dioxygenase 5-hydroxy-methyluracil oxygenase thymine 7-hydroxylase thymine dioxygenase CAS registry number 37256-67-0 2 Source Organism Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- Interplanar angles of 40.5 and 39 have been found in the 5-ethoxypsoralen-thymine and 5-butoxypsoralen-thymine photoproducts, respectively, where the cycloaddition occurs at the pyrone ring.
- The UVA1 induced a type of lesion called thymine dimers on the deeper basal layers of the skin. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- These data confirm that cycloaddition occurs between the 8,9-double bond of HFQ and the 5,6-double bond of thymine.
- The nucleotide uridine is never found in DNA and thymine is almost exclusively found in DNA.
- The electrons in a DNA molecule such as thymine, for instance, knit together and are firmly attached to thymine's atoms. The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
- I realized that I could use a simple quilt block to represent each of the four bases in DNA: cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine. Boing Boing
- In DNA the bases pair to form a ladder-like structure, with adenine paired with thymine and guanine with cytosine.