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depyrimidation

depyrimidation is the misspelling of depyrimidination.

Meaning of depyrimidination

Noun

depyrimidination (countable and uncountable, plural depyrimidinations)

  1. A process in which the chemical bond linking a pyrimidine (cytosine or thymine) to a deoxyribose sugar breaks spontaneously. It occurs at a lower rate compared to depurination with only 500 cytosine and thymine bases lost per cell per day in a typical mammalian cell.

Questions about depyrimidation

What is depyrimidation the misspelling of?
Depyrimidation is the misspelling of depyrimidination.

Words near depyrimidation in the dictionary

  1. deputy first minister
  2. deputy first ministers
  3. deputying
  4. deputyship
  5. deputyships
  6. depyrimidation
  7. depyrimidination
  8. depyrimidinations
  9. depyrogenate
  10. depyrogenated
  11. depyrogenates

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