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Definition of Thymine

1. Noun. A base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine.

Definition of Thymine

1. Noun. (biochemistry genetics) A base, C₅H₆N₂O₂, obtained by applying sulphuric acid to thymic acid; it pairs with adenine in DNA. ¹

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Definition of Thymine

1. a chemical compound [n -S]

Medical Definition of Thymine

1. Pyrimidine base found in DNA (in place of uracil of RNA). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thymine

Literary usage of Thymine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nucleic Acids: Their Chemical Properties and Physiological Conduct by Walter Jones (1914)
"Identification of thymine and uracil can only be made by analysis of the substances themselves, but cytosine forms a characteristic analysable picrate ..."

2. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Biology by Elmer Verner McCollum (1920)
"N==C_Q N=CH Cl—C CH +4H = HC CH II II II II N—CH N—CH 2,6-dichlor pyrimidine Pyrimidine thymine and cytosine are obtained from animal nucleic acids, ..."

3. A Handbook of Organic Chemistry: For the Use of Students by William Gregory (1856)
"thymine. This name has been given by ... The addition of alcohol or ether causes slowly a deposit of impure thymine; which is purified by solution in ..."

4. The Chemical Gazette (1854)
"thymine is very readily soluble in water; it also dissolves in boiling alcohol of ... The concentrated watery solution of thymine does not render reddened ..."

5. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"(a) thymine and Cytosine. The precipitate is suspended in hot water and decomposed with ... thymine separates out during evaporation and on cooling. ..."

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