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- One of four building blocks of ribonucleic acid (RNA), a type of nucleic acid found in all cells. In the cell, RNA is made from DNA (the other type of nucleic acid), and proteins are made from RNA.
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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
