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homopyrimidine

homopyrimidine adjective: describing a pairing of a pyrimidine with the same one on a neighboring strand of nucleic acid.

Adjective

homopyrimidine

  1. Describing a pairing of a pyrimidine with the same one on a neighboring strand of nucleic acid
    • In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ].2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of homopyrimidine

From homo- + pyrimidine.

Questions about homopyrimidine

What does homopyrimidine mean?
Homopyrimidine means describing a pairing of a pyrimidine with the same one on a neighboring strand of nucleic acid.
What part of speech is homopyrimidine?
Homopyrimidine is an adjective.

Words near homopyrimidine in the dictionary

  1. homopterous
  2. homopters
  3. homopurine
  4. homopurinic
  5. homopycnal
  6. homopyrimidine
  7. homopyrimidinic
  8. homorepeat
  9. homorepeats
  10. homoresistant
  11. homorganic

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