A base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine.
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Examples for "thy "
Examples for "thy "
1 Holy Father, keep them in thy name; sanctify them in the truth.
2 The lamb in that day shall feed at large in thy possession:
3 Destruction is thy own, O Israel: thy help is only in me.
4 So ends the last scene in the dark drama of thy past.
5 But in the drama of thy life three acts conclude the play.
1 Labelled thymine was also taken up by one case of malignant microcalcifications.
2 The simplest modification of uridine at this position is methylation leading to thymine .
3 Compared to thymine - thymine carriers, cytosine allele carriers have a higher subjective happiness level.
4 It could serve to repair damaged thymine residues in DNA via base excision-repair.
5 But this is offset by a transfer of deoxyribose from deoxyadenosine to thymine .
6 The thymine - uracil exchange constitutes one of the major chemical differences between DNA and RNA.
7 There are two ways for uracil to appear in DNA: thymine replacement and cytosine deamination.
8 It is therefore crucial to limit thymine - replacing uracils.dUTP is constantly produced in the pyrimidine biosynthesis network.
9 Germline-encoded aromatic and hydrophobic side chains provides the basis for nonspecific recognition of single-stranded thymine nucleobases.
10 Their chemical structure combines an intercalating anchor with a reporter fluorophore on the same thymine nucleobase.
11 Twenty-three malignant lesions showed uptake of labelled thymine .
12 Mismatches arise during recombination, as errors of DNA replication, and from deamination of 5-methylcytosine to thymine .
13 Besides theoretical investigation, experimental detection of uracil and thymine tautomers was performed by means of steady-state fluorescence.
14 The e4T-containing oligonucleotide was prepared by using a new synthetic procedure suitable for large alkyl groups on thymine .
15 Transitions of cytosine to thymine in CpG dinucleotides are the most frequent type of mutations observed in cancer.
16 For some reason, the guanine - thymine sequence, which normally marks the beginning of an intron, has failed in these children.
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