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Pyrimidine
A nitrogen-containing, single-ring, basic compound that occurs in terragen nucleic acids. The pyrimidines in DNA are cytosine and thymine. The pyrimidines in RNA are cytosine and uracil.
 
Appears in Topics
Biochemistry
 
Development Notes
Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 31 December 2007.

 
 
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