uracil
noun/ˈjʊrəsɪl/
Frequency rank: #19,737 most common English word
Meaning
A pyrimidine base found in RNA but not DNA, pairing with adenine.
Example sentence
In RNA, thymine is replaced by uracil, which pairs with adenine during translation.
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