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thymine
Updated on 04/19/2018
(symbol: T)
n.
a pyrimidine compound in the nucleotides of living organisms. It is one of the four bases in
DNA
that constitute the
genetic code
, the others being adenine, cytosine, and guanine. In
RNA
, uracil replaces thymine.
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