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pyrimidines

pyrimidines is the plural of pyrimidine.

Meaning of pyrimidine

Noun

pyrimidine (plural pyrimidines)

  1. A diazine in which the two nitrogen atoms are in the meta- positions; it is the basis of three of the bases found in DNA and RNA: thymine, uracil and cytosine

Questions about pyrimidines

What is pyrimidines the plural of?
Pyrimidines is the plural of pyrimidine.

Words near pyrimidines in the dictionary

  1. pyrimidine
  2. pyrimidinecarboxylic acid
  3. pyrimidinedione
  4. pyrimidinediones
  5. pyrimidinergic
  6. pyrimidines
  7. pyrimidinetrione
  8. pyrimidinetriones
  9. pyrimidinic
  10. pyrimidinone
  11. pyrimidinones

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