uracil
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
Definition of uracil
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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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