One of the four
bases in
RNA. The others are
adenine,
guanine, and
cytosine.
Uracil replaces
thymine, which is the fourth
base in
DNA. Like
thymine,
uracil always pairs with
adenine.
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Full article >>>Uracil (U)
Uracil is a
pyrimidine base (
nitrogenous base) and constituent of
nucleotides and as such one member of the
base pair A-U (
adenine-
uracil). It is normally found in
RNA but not
DNA.
Base pair (bp) ...
Full article >>>UracilCytosineThese
hydrogen bonding modes are for
classical Watson-Crick
base pairing.
Full article >>>uracil The
pyrimidine that replaces
thymine in
RNA molecules and
nucleotides.
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Full article >>>Uracil-N-glycosylase
A repair
enzyme that removes
uracil from
DNA by cleaving the bond between the
base and the sugar backbone. This
enzyme ensures that
DNA contains T instead of U
residues.
Full article >>>uracil A nitrogen
base found in
RNA.
urban Peculiar to the
human environment, as contrasted with that found normally around wild
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Full article >>>Uracil (U): A
base; one of the molecular c omponents of
RNA. Bonds only with
adenine (U-A).
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Full article >>>Uracil A
nitrogenous base normally found in
RNA but not
DNA;
uracil is capable of forming a
base pair with
adenine.
See also:
base pair,
nucleotideReturn to Top
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Full article >>>Uracil: A
nitrogenous base normally found in
RNA but not
DNA;
uracil is capable of forming a
base pair with
adenine.
Full article >>>Members of the pairs
adenine-
thymine,
adenine-
uracil, and
guaninecytosine that have the ability to
hydrogen bond to one another. (See
nucleotide.)
Concatemer. A
DNA segment composed of repeated
sequences linked end to end.
Conjugation.
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 >>>RNA is primarily made up of four different
bases:
adenine,
guanine,
cytosine, and
uracil. The first three are the same as those found in
DNA, but
uracil replaces
thymine as the
base complementary to
adenine.
Full article >>>RNA is identical with the exception that
thymine (T) is substituted with
uracil (U).
Codons are non-overlapping groups of the three
bases. There are 43 = 64
codons.
Full article >>>cytidine deaminases that convert a C in the
RNA to
uracil (U);
adenosine deaminases that convert an A to inosine (I), which the
ribosome translates as a G. Thus a CAG
codon (for Gln) can be converted to a CGG
codon (for Arg).
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 >>>(
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 >>>Other
bases in addition to the normal
adenine;
cytosine;
guanine; and
uracil. Found primarily in t
RNAs and produced by post
transcription modification of one of the normal
bases.
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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 >>>The
bases in the m
RNA strand are opposite (complimentary) to the
bases in the
DNA template strand; it resembles the
sense strand of
DNA except that the
base thymine is replaced by
uracil.
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 >>>RNA:
ribonucleic acid; a
nucleic acid produced during
transcription that is
complementary to a
DNA strand; similar to
DNA in structure but contains the
carbohydrate ribose and the
pyrimidine uracil rather than
thymine.
Full article >>>components of
nucleotides (despite the basic nature of
nucleotides,
nucleic acids are acidic due to the phosphate atoms they contain). The five
bases that form the
nucleic acids are
adenine (A),
guanine (G),
cytosine (C),
tymine
(T) and
uracil (U).
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