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Uracil
A nitrogenous base normally found in RNA but not DNA; uracil is capable of forming a base pair with adenine. Uracil replaces thymine, which is the fourth base in DNA. Like thymine, uracil always pairs with adenine.
See also: base pair, nucleotide


















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