thymine

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Ball-and-stick model of a thymine molecule. Key: black = carbon, blue = nitrogen, red = oxygen, white = hydrogen.

Etymology

From thymus +‎ -ine. Thymine was first isolated in 1893 by Albrecht Kossel and Albert Neumann from calves' thymus glands, hence its name.

Pronunciation

Noun

thymine (countable and uncountable, plural thymines)

  1. (organic chemistry, genetics) A heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione; it pairs with adenine in DNA.
    Coordinate terms: adenine, cytosine, guanine
    • 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 164:
      Then he found them, the substances that made up the four-letter alphabet in whose language all life is written — adenine and cytosine, guanine and thymine.

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Noun

thymine f (plural thymines)

  1. thymine

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