pyrimidine

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pyrimidine

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pyrimidines

pyrimidine (plural pyrimidines)

  1. (organic chemistry) A diazine in which the two nitrogen atoms are in the meta- positions; it is the basis of three of the bases found in DNA and RNA, thymine, uracil and cytosine

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diazine in which the two nitrogen atoms are in the meta-positions
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