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Meaning of Thymine | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈθaɪmɪn

Definitions

A heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione; it pairs with adenine in DNA.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية ثايمين
Čeština thymin
Deutsch Thymin
Esperanto timino
Suomi tymiini
Français thymine
Italiano timina
日本語 チミン
Қазақша тимин
Polski tymina
Português timina
Русский тими́н
Türkçe timin

Examples

“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.”
“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 ].”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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