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depyrimidination

depyrimidination noun: 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.

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.

Forms of depyrimidination

pluraldepyrimidinations

Origin of depyrimidination

From de- + pyrimidine + -ation.

Questions about depyrimidination

What does depyrimidination mean?
Depyrimidination means 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.
What part of speech is depyrimidination?
Depyrimidination is a noun.
What is the plural of depyrimidination?
The plural of depyrimidination is depyrimidinations.

Words near depyrimidination in the dictionary

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

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