uracil

uracil
noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary 1ur- + acetic + -il (substance relating to) Date: 1890 a pyrimidine base C4H4N2O2 that is one of the four bases coding genetic information in the polynucleotide chain of RNA — compare adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine

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  • Uracil — Uracil …   Wikipedia

  • uracil — URACÍL s.n. (biol.) Substanţă organică de natură bazică prezentă în acidul ribonucleic. – Din fr. uracile. Trimis de valeriu, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98  uracíl s. n. (sil. mf. ur ) Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic … …   Dicționar Român

  • uracil — uracil. См. урацил. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • Uracil — Uracil, Pyrimidinbase; kommt als Baustein der ⇒ Nucleotide der RNA vor. Das Nucleosid des U. ist das Uridin …   Deutsch wörterbuch der biologie

  • uracil — coined in German, 1885, perhaps from UREA (Cf. urea) + Ger. Acetsäure acetic acid + chemical suffix il …   Etymology dictionary

  • uracil — uràcīl m <G uracíla> DEFINICIJA kem. pirimidinska baza, sastojak svih ribonukleinskih kiselina, C4H4N2O2 ETIMOLOGIJA grč. oȗron: mokraća + lat. acetum: kiselina …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • uracil — [yoor′ə sil΄] n. [ UR(O) + AC(ETIC) + IL] a colorless, crystalline, pyrimidine base, C4H4N2O2, that occurs as a constituent of RNA …   English World dictionary

  • Uracil — Strukturformel Allgemeines Name Uracil Andere Namen Pyrimidin 2,4( …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • uracil — /yoor euh sil/, n. Biochem. a pyrimidine base, C4H4N2O2, that is one of the fundamental components of RNA, in which it forms base pairs with adenine. Symbol: U [1905 10; UR 1 + AC(ETIC) + il, of uncert. orig.] * * * Organic compound of the… …   Universalium

  • Uracil (U) — A nucleotide base and one member of the A U (adenine uracil) base pair in RNA. The other base pair in RNA is G C (guanine cytosine). Uracil takes the place in RNA that thymine (T) occupies in DNA …   Medical dictionary

  • Uracil — Ura|cil 〈n. 11〉 stickstoffhaltige organ. Base, Baustein der Ribonukleinsäure * * * U|ra|cil [vermutlich aus ↑ Urea u. ↑ Acetessigester (deren Reaktion Methyluracil liefert) sowie ↑ il], das; s; Symbol: Ura; Syn.: Pyrimidin 2,4(1 …   Universal-Lexikon

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