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polythymine

polythymine noun: a repeat of many thymine bases in a stretch of DNA.

Noun

polythymine (uncountable)

  1. A repeat of many thymine bases in a stretch of DNA

Origin of polythymine

From poly- + thymine.

Questions about polythymine

What does polythymine mean?
Polythymine means a repeat of many thymine bases in a stretch of DNA.
What part of speech is polythymine?
Polythymine is a noun.

Words near polythymine in the dictionary

  1. polythiophene
  2. polythiophenes
  3. polythreonine
  4. polythreonines
  5. polythymidine
  6. polythymine
  7. polytimbral
  8. polytime
  9. polytocous
  10. polytokous
  11. polytoky

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