thymine
noun/ˈθaɪmiːn/
Etymology From thymus + -ine. Thymine was first isolated in 1893 by Albrecht Kossel and Albert Neumann from calves' thymus glands, hence its name.
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Biology, Chemistry, Genetics, Medicine, Natural sciences, Organic chemistry, Physical sciences, Sciences A heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione; it pairs with adenine in DNA.
- Then he found them, the substances that made up the four-letter alphabet in whose language all life is written — adenine and cytosine, guanine and thymine.1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 164:
- 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:
- Derived terms
- deoxythymine, homothymine, polythymine, thymineless
- Related terms
- thymidine, thymidylate, thymidylic acid