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- noun chemistry, biology A process in which the chemical bond linking a
pyrimidine (cytosine orthymine ) to adeoxyribose sugar breaks spontaneously. It occurs at a lower rate compared todepurination with only 500 cytosine and thymine bases lost per cell per day in a typicalmammalian cell .
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