How to Use thymine in a Sentence

thymine

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  • Ninety percent of the thymine in their DNA was replaced by chlorouracil.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2011
  • All genes consists of base pairs made of adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C).
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Stuck to every sugar is a base—the As (adenine), Gs (guanine), Cs (cytosine), and Ts (thymine).
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Each gene consists of some number of base pairs made of adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C).
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021
  • Instead of hooks and loops, the Velcro has the nucleotides that make up DNA: adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine.
    — Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Adenine bonds with thymine, and cytosine bonds with guanine.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The bases are often referred to as A, C, G and T, the initials of their full chemical names, adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine.
    — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • In the graphic below, cytosine is replaced with thymine.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2020
  • The molecules are called bases and are represented by the letters A (adenine), T (thymine), G (guanine), and C (cytosine).
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2016
  • Four chemical bases — adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine — bond with hydrogen to make base pairings.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The vast chains of DNA in each cell are made of just four molecules — adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine — arranged in enormously varied configurations.
    — Gina Kolata, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2017
  • All that means is that there’s a genetic variation at a certain location on your genome—for example, a cytosine base instead of thymine at position 42.
    — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
  • To do so, researchers typically convert a data file’s string of digital 1s and 0s into combinations of the molecule’s four bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 11 Jan. 2021
  • For the more recent experiments, cooler water and more sensitive study methods were used to extract and identify the nucleobases cytosine and thymine, while more sensitive study methods found the molecules, researchers say.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022

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