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thy·mine

(thī′mēn′)

n. Abbr. T

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

[thym(ic acid), acid obtained from the thymus + -ine.]

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thymine

(ˈθaɪmiːn)

(Biochemistry) a white crystalline pyrimidine base found in DNA. Formula: C5H6N2O2

[C19: from thymic (see thymus) + -ine²]

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thy•mine

(ˈθaɪ min, -mɪn)

n.

a pyrimidine base, C₅H₆N₂O₂, that is one of the principal components of DNA, in which it is paired with adenine. Symbol: T

[1890–95; thym (ic)² + -ine²]

thy·mine

(thī′mēn′)

A base that is a component of DNA. It forms a base pair with adenine.

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Noun

thymine - a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine

deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA - (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information; "DNA is the king of molecules"

pyrimidine - any of several basic compounds derived from pyrimidine

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The bases are adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and thymine (T).

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These include thymine, cytosine, guanine and adenine which are four nucleotides found on life on Earth.

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DNA uses four chemical "bases"- adenosine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G)-to encode information.

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These bases -- adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine, abbreviated as A, T, C, and G -- can be arranged in any order, with the order representing information that can be used by cells, or in this case by engineered nanomachines.

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For example, bacteria that are rich in adenine and thymine (AT-rich) will amplify more easily than bacteria with more guanine and cytosine (GC-rich).

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It supplants thymine in DNA which leads to DNA mutation.

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Therefore, the effect of adenine and thymine on quartz dissolution is important to understand the origin of life on Earth.

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One day later, skin was evaluated for erythema and sunburn cells, and immunohistochemically for thymine dimers and p53.

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Together guanine (G), adenine (A), thymine (T) and cytosine (C) make up the letters of the genetic code.

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We observed that artifactual C> T variants that were resistant to the UDG treatment mainly occurred at CpG dinucleotides, consistent with the presence of methylation and the resulting deamination of 5-methylcytosine (5-mC) to thymine (13, 14).

Reducing Artifactual EGFR T790M Mutations in DNA from Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tissue by Use of Thymine-DNA Glycosylase

Based on bisulfite modification methods, methylated probes containing methylated cytosine and nonmethylated probes containing thymine (T) rather than uracil were used as described previously.[sup][24] Methylated and nonmethylated targets were complementary sequences of methylated and nonmethylated probes, respectively.