uracil

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈjʊərəsɪl/

Definition of uracil

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)One of the bases of RNA, pairing with adenine.
    “We did have some success with uracil when we would preincorporate the uracil into a mutant of E. coli that had a uracil requirement and then feed this cellular content from E. coli.”

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Etymology

From uro- + ac(etic) + -ile. Coined in 1885 by the German chemist Robert Behrend, who was attempting to synthesize derivatives of uric acid.

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