Pyrimidine Base
A nitrogenous base that has a six membered ring. The ring contains four carbon and two nitrogen atoms. Biologically significant pyrimidines include the bases thymine, cytosine and uracil.
When bound to a ribose or deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate molecule, these bases form three of the five nucleotide building blocks of DNA* and RNA.
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