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pyrimidine

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English word pyrimidine comes from German Pyrimidin

Pyrimidin (German)

pyrimidine (English)

(organic compound) 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.

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