Pyrimidine Definition

pī-rĭmĭ-dēn, pĭ-
noun
A colorless, liquid, crystalline organic compound, C4H4N2, the fundamental form of a group of bases, some of which are constituents of nucleic acid.
Webster's New World
Any of several basic substances produced by the decomposition of nucleoproteins and having a pyrimidine-type molecule, as thymine, cytosine, or uracil.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Pyrimidine

Noun

Singular:
pyrimidine
Plural:
pyrimidines

Origin of Pyrimidine

  • Alteration of pyridine

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pyrimidine Sentence Examples

  • The purins themselves may be considered as a combination of the pyrimidine and glyoxaline ring systems. For formulae see below; the numbers about the first ring explain the orientation of pyrimidine derivatives.

  • It is considered to inhibit de novo pyrimidine synthesis in a manner similar to BQR (Figure 4).

  • Purine bases are colored red, and pyrimidine bases are colored blue.

  • Altered erythrocyte nucleotide patterns are characteristic of inherited disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism.

  • This proton transfer is promoted by a glutamate residue adjacent to the pyrimidine ring.

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Words Starting With

PPYPYR

Words Ending With

ENEINE

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pyrimidine

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