thymine

IPA: θˈaɪmʌn

(organic chemistry, genetics) A heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione; it pairs with adenine in DNA.

Examples of "thymine" in Sentences

He paired adenine with adenine instead of pairing it with thymine.
The UVA1 induced a type of lesion called thymine dimers on the deeper basal layers of the skin.
The electrons in a DNA molecule such as thymine, for instance, knit together and are firmly attached to thymine's atoms.
Each nucleotide unit is composed of a sugar, a phosphate, and one of four bases, adenine, cytosine, guanine, or thymine.
It is evident from the formulae that in thymine and cytosine a ring-like system of carbon and nitrogen atoms must be assumed.
I realized that I could use a simple quilt block to represent each of the four bases in DNA: cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine.
These symbols represent the four basic chemical letters, or bases, the body uses to form DNA--guanine, cytosine, adenine and thymine.
The two others, thymine and cytosine, showed a simpler composition; experiments of breakdown and synthesis led to the result that in thymine there must be a grouping of the carbon and nitrogen atoms corresponding to the following scheme:
Thymine dioxygenase 1.14.11.6 1 Nomenclature EC number 1.14.11.6 Systematic name thymine,2-oxoglutarate: oxygen oxidoreductase (7-hydroxylating) Recommended name thymine dioxygenase Synonyms 5-hydroxy-methyluracil dioxygenase 5-hydroxy-methyluracil oxygenase thymine 7-hydroxylase thymine dioxygenase CAS registry number 37256-67-0 2 Source Organism