How to Use thymine in a Sentence

thymine

noun

• Ninety percent of the thymine in their DNA was replaced by chlorouracil.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2011
• All genes consists of base pairs made of adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C).
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
• Stuck to every sugar is a base—the As (adenine), Gs (guanine), Cs (cytosine), and Ts (thymine).
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• Each gene consists of some number of base pairs made of adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C).
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021
• Instead of hooks and loops, the Velcro has the nucleotides that make up DNA: adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine.
  — Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
• Adenine bonds with thymine, and cytosine bonds with guanine.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
• The bases are often referred to as A, C, G and T, the initials of their full chemical names, adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• In the graphic below, cytosine is replaced with thymine.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2020
• The molecule is made up of the chemical bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine—shortened to A, C, G, and T—which pair off to form a double helix.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2023
• The molecules are called bases and are represented by the letters A (adenine), T (thymine), G (guanine), and C (cytosine).
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2016
• Four chemical bases — adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine — bond with hydrogen to make base pairings.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2022
• The vast chains of DNA in each cell are made of just four molecules — adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine — arranged in enormously varied configurations.
  — Gina Kolata, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2017
• All that means is that there’s a genetic variation at a certain location on your genome—for example, a cytosine base instead of thymine at position 42.
  — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
• To do so, researchers typically convert a data file’s string of digital 1s and 0s into combinations of the molecule’s four bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 11 Jan. 2021
• Adenine always pairs with thymine, and guanine always pairs with cytosine.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025