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thymine

(Science: biochemistry) pyrimidine base found in dNA (in place of uracil of rNA). A base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine.One of the four bases of a nucleotide that are found in DNA. Thymine is paired with adenine in DNA sequences and is replaced by uracil in mRNA.


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... biology" a week or two ago(self taught), and I learned just yesterday how DNA is made out of four nucleotides; adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine... Yeah, that's how much I don't understand cancer and DNA. I was thinking about how radiation causes mutations in of itself, while reading ...

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by Ahsmeah
Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:10 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Cancer = Mutation: Stopping Mutation Would Cure Cancer?
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Re: Codons are triplets, but what's a Singlet, Doublet, etc?

... Adenine ACGTN(1) = "C" 'Pyrimidine-base Cytosine ACGTN(2) = "G" 'Purine-base Guanine ACGTN(3) = "T" 'Pyrimidine-base Thymine ACGTN(4) = "N" '"N" is the 5th base, for math Base 5 only. 'Associative array for finding Compliment of each letter ...

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by GaryGaulin
Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:18 am
 
Forum: Bioinformatics
Topic: Codons are triplets, but what's a Singlet, Doublet, etc?
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what is DNA & RNA?

RNA has a Uracil pyrimidine base in the place of thymine in DNA as well :)

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by billyfisher100
Thu Jun 21, 2012 5:36 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: what is DNA & RNA?
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Sequencing Primers

... bands appear darker on a gel. Hydrazine works for pyrimidines (C and T). Only Cystine bases are cleaved in high salt and are distinguished from Thymine bases. DougB

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by DougB
Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:25 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Sequencing Primers
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Method preventing illnesses in the progeny

... not without changing its structure. Having lost the way among two birches, in the form of purine and pyrimidine the bases: adenine - guanine and thymine – uracil, genetics exaggerate value of DNA in an organism together with own applicability in a science and a practice. Consequence of it became ...

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by valentindolzhenko
Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:26 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Method preventing illnesses in the progeny
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