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Antonyms
Sentences with pyrimidine
1. Noun, singular or mass
A rung of the ladder can be made up of one purine and one pyrimidine base.
2. Adjective
As a nonessential amino acid, beta-alanine -- commonly known simply as alanine -- doesn't need to be part of your regular diet, as your body can synthesize it from pyrimidine compounds.
3. Verb, base form
(Can you think of an architectural reason that purine bases only bind to pyrimidine bases across the center of DNA?