thymine
pronunciation
How to pronounce thymine in British English:
UK ['θaɪmi:n]
How to pronounce thymine in American English:
US ['θaɪmin]
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- Noun:
- a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
Word Origin
- thymine (n.)
- nitrogenous base, 1894, from German (Kossel and Neumann, 1893), from thymic acid, from which it was isolated, the acid so called because obtained from the thymus gland. With chemical suffix -ine (2).
Example
- 1. In a dna molecule , the base adenine sticks to thymine , and guanine pairs with cytosine .
- 2. Thymidine the nucleoside formed when thymine is linked to d-ribose by a b-glycosidic bond .
- 3. Thymine or thymine nucleotide concentration was all disqulified .
- 4. An international team of researchers has now succeeded in generating a bacterium possessing a dna in which thymine is replaced by the synthetic building block 5-chlorouracil , a substance toxic for other organisms .