pyrimidines

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A form of pyrimidine — 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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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of pyrimidine
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