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uracil


uracil
A pyrimidine that is one of five organic bases found in the nucleic acids of cells. It pairs with adenine in RNA. The difficulty of synthesizing uracil and cytosine in laboratory experiments intended to mimic conditions on the primordial Earth has left a question mark over current models of prebiotic evolution.





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