Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry
Thymine:
One of the four
heterocyclic
nucleobases
comprising
DNA
. Thymine is not found in
RNA
.
Molecular structure
of thymine.
Related terms:
Nucleoside
,
nucleotide
,
purine
,
pyrimidine
,
adenine
,
cytosine
,
guanine
,
uracil
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