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Pairs with adenine
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thymine
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Thymine ( T , Thy ) is one of the four nucleobases in the nucleic acid of DNA that are represented by the letters G–C–A–T. The others are adenine , guanine , and cytosine . Thymine is also known as 5-methyluracil, a pyrimidine nucleobase. In RNA , thymine ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine [syn: T ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context biochemistry genetics English) A base, C 5 H 6 N 2 O 2 , obtained by applying sulphuric acid to thymic acid; it pairs with adenine in DNA.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nitrogenous base, 1894, from German (Kossel and Neumann, 1893), from thymic acid, from which it was isolated, the acid so called because obtained from the thymus gland. With chemical suffix -ine (2).
Usage examples of thymine.
Spiraling pairs of cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine: we know these are instructions for growth, for the development of life, all coded in sequences of paired elements.
They represented the nucleotides adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine.
The toggle must have been set for DNA mode, since the buttons were displaying the Neanderthal glyphs for adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine.
Glutamic acid, without which ammonia accumulates in the brain and kills, dribbled along the floor while they glared, and D-ribose, and D-2-deoxyribose, adenine, guanine, uracil, cytosine, thymine and 5-methyl cytosine without which no thing higher than a trilobite can pass on its shape and meaning to its next generation.
The toggle must have been set for DNA mode, since the buttons were displaying the Neanderthal glyphs for adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine.
Each side of these base pairs can either be an adenine -thymine or a guanine -cytosine bond, and they can be aligned either direction, so there are four choices.
In fact, adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine molecules have quite different structures, and their electron density distributions as seen by a scanning probe microscope are readily distinguished by an experienced eye.
An hour after he posts it Donahue tells him he has the wrong forms of thymine and guaninethe enol, not the keto form.
An hour after he posts it Donahue tells him he has the wrong forms of thymine and guanine—the enol, not the keto form.