homopyrimidine

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adjective

Describing a pairing of a pyrimidine with the same one on a neighboring strand of nucleic acid

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Meanings

adjective
  1. biologyDescribing a pairing of a pyrimidine with the same one on a neighboring strand of nucleic acid

    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

Origin

From homo- + pyrimidine.

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