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depyrimidinations

depyrimidinations is the plural 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 depyrimidinations

What is depyrimidinations the plural of?
Depyrimidinations is the plural of depyrimidination.

Words near depyrimidinations in the dictionary

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

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