uracil

uracil

(symbol: U) n. a pyrimidine compound in the nucleotides of living organisms. It is one of the four bases found in RNA that constitute the genetic code, the others being adenine, cytosine, and guanine. In DNA, thymine occurs instead of uracil.

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