A pair of abnormally chemically bonded adjacent
thymine bases in
DNA, resulting from damage by ultra-violet irradiation. The cellular processes that repair this lesion often make errors that create
mutations.
Full article >>>One of the four
bases in
DNA that make up the letters ATGC,
thymine is the "T". The others are
adenine,
guanine, and
cytosine.
Thymine always pairs with
adenine.
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Full article >>>Thymine dimers can be directly converted to
unlinked thymines by three means: exposure to low wavelength UV radiation; photosensitization by tryptophan or tryptophan containing
peptides; enzymatically.
Full article >>>Thymine (T)
Thymine is a
pyrimidine base (
nitrogenous base) and constituent of nulceotides and as such one member of the
base pair A-T (
adenine-
thymine) in
DNA.
Guanine (G) ...
Full article >>>Thymine dimerSee
pyrimidine dimer.
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plasmid The large
plasmid found in those Agrobacterium tumefaciens
cells able to direct crown gall formation on certain
species of
plants.
Full article >>>Thymine: A
nitrogenous base. Pairs with
adenine in
DNA molecules.
Virus: A particle consisting of a
nucleic acid core surrounded by a
protein coat. New
virus particles can only be produced by a
cell which is infected by the
virus.
Full article >>>thymine One of the
pyrimidine bases in
DNA,
thymine is replaced by
uracil in
RNA.
thyroid-stimulating
hormone A
hormone produced by the anterior pituitary that stimulates the production and release of thyroid
hormones.
Full article >>>Thymine (T): A
base; one of the molecular components of
DNA and
RNA. Always bonds with
adenine (T-A).
Transcription: The process by which
DNA passes genetic information to
RNA.
Transcription is the first step in producing
proteins.
Full article >>>thymine A
pyrimidine base occurring in
DNA but not in
RNA.
thymus gland A ductless mass of flattened
lymphoid
tissue situated behind the top of the sternum; it forms
antibodies in the newborn and is involved in the development of the
immune system.
Full article >>>Thymine (T): A
nitrogenous base, one member of the
base pair AT (
adeninethymine).
Transcription: The synthesis of an
RNA copy from a
sequence of
DNA (a
gene); the first step in
gene expression. Compare
translation.
Full article >>>A pair of
complementary
nitrogenous bases in a
DNA molecule--
adenine-
thymine and
guanine-
cytosine. Also, the unit of measurement for
DNA sequences.
Bioaugmentation.
Full article >>>Base sequence -- a partnership of
organic
bases found in
DNA and
RNA;
adenine forms a
base pair with
thymine (or
uracil) and
guanine with
cytosine in a double-
stranded
nucleic acid molecule.
Full article >>>Threonine Threshold[of response to toxic agents] [of
neurons] [of
skeletal muscle] Thrombin Thrombocytopenic purpura, immune Thrombomodulin Thrombopoietin Thromboxanes (TXs)
Thylakoid[structure] [and
light reactions] Thymidine
kinase Thymine Thymus ...
Full article >>>thymine dimer pyrimidine dimer.
tissue culture Method by which
cells derived from multicellular
organisms are grown in liquid media. titration curve A plot of the pH versus the equivalents of acid or
base added during titration of a
base or an acid.
Full article >>>The first three are the same as those found in
DNA, but
uracil replaces
thymine as the
base complementary to
adenine. This
base is also a
pyrimidine and is very similar to
thymine.
Full article >>>In the case of
DNA this is comprised of
adenine (A),
guanine (G),
cytosine (C) and
thymine (T).
RNA is identical with the exception that
thymine (T) is substituted with
uracil (U).
Codons are non-overlapping groups of the three
bases.
Full article >>>A common type of
mutation caused by ultraviolet radiation occurs when two
thymines become bonded to each other, forming a kink in the
DNA molecule.
Full article >>>An
organic acid and polymer composed of four
nitrogenous bases--
adenine,
thymine,
cytosine, and
guanine linked via intervening units of phosphate and the pentose sugar
deoxyribose.
Full article >>>that the amount of
adenine, A, tends to be equal to that of
thymine, T).
Full article >>>important
organic
compounds (
bases) such as
cytosine,
thymine, and
uracil, which are constituents of
nucleic acidsSource: Noland, George B. 1983. General
Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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Full article >>>Included in this group are the
nucleoside analogs, chemicals that are similar to one of the
bases (
adenine,
cytosine,
guanine, and
thymine) that comprise
DNA, but sufficiently different enough to block viral
DNA synthesis.
Full article >>>A
nitrogenous base, such as
cytosine,
thymine, or
uracil, with a
characteristic single-ring structure; one of the components of
nucleic acids.
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Full article >>>(
RNA, like
DNA, is made up of
nucleotides although t he
nucleotide uracil (U) is used in place of
thymine (T).) The
RNA transcribed from a
gene is called
messenger RNA.
Full article >>>Nucleotide: A building block of
DNA or
RNA consisting of a
nitrogenous base (
adenine,
guanine,
thymine, or
cytosine in
DNA;
adenine,
guanine,
uracil, or
cytosine in
RNA), a phosphate
molecule, ...
Full article >>>A single-
stranded
nucleic acid similar to
DNA but having ribose sugar rather than
deoxyribose sugar and
uracil rather than
thymine as one of the
pyrimidine bases.
Also known as:
ribonucleic acid ...
Full article >>>PYRIMIDINE BASES -
Cytosine (C),
Thymine (T) or
Uracil (U) (see
NUCLEOTIDE).
Full article >>>complementary
base pairs -
base-pairing between a larger
purine base (
adenine or
guanine) and a smaller
pyrimidine base (
cytosine or
thymine) while
DNA is in its double-helix. (A/T, G/C) ...
Full article >>>pyrimidine: a type of
nitrogenous base in
DNA molecules that has one ring containing carbon and nitrogen atoms; two examples in
DNA are
cytosine (C) and
thymine (T).
A-D E-K
L-P
R-Z ...
Full article >>>(
deoxyribonucleic acid): The large double-
stranded
molecule carrying the
genetic code. It consists of four
bases (
adenine,
guanine,
cytosine and
thymine), phosphate and ribose.
DNA binding
motif ...
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