thymine
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From thymus + -ine. Thymine was first isolated in 1893 by Albrecht Kossel and Albert Neumann from calves' thymus glands, hence its name.
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[edit]Noun
[edit]thymine (countable and uncountable, plural thymines)
- (organic chemistry, genetics) A heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione; it pairs with adenine in DNA.
- 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 164:
- Then he found them, the substances that made up the four-letter alphabet in whose language all life is written — adenine and cytosine, guanine and thymine.
- 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ].
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[edit]organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione
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Noun
[edit]thymine f (plural thymines)
Further reading
[edit]- “thymine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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