thymine

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A mutation exists when a base pair on the two strands of DNA is replaced with a different but otherwise normal base pair (i. e. adenine-thymine or guanine-cytosine).

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  1. noun A pyrimidine base, C5H6N2O2, that is an essential constituent of DNA.

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  • Erwin Chargaff published a paper in which he described something he found extraordinary: the ratios of adenine to thymine were equal, as well as cytosine to guanine. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Abstract: NH stretching excitations of DNA oligomers containing 23 alternating adenine-thymine base pairs are studied in femtosecond two-color pumpprobe experiments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • DNA • Dr. David Deamer, a cell biologist at the University of California Davis, in 1988 published several tapes based on a measuring of the rhythm of the four DNA bases (adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine) as they traveled along the helix. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • A mutation exists when a base pair on the two strands of DNA is replaced with a different but otherwise normal base pair (i. e. adenine-thymine or guanine-cytosine). —  Science and Reason
  • Remember good ol 'adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine? —  Popular Science
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  1. thym(ic acid), acid obtained from the thymus + -ine2.

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  1. thym(ic) + -ine.
 

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/ˈθaɪmɪn/
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