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uracil

noun
/ˈjʊərəsɪl/

Etymology

From uro- + ac(etic) + -ile. Coined in 1885 by the German chemist Robert Behrend, who was attempting to synthesize derivatives of uric acid.

  1. derived from acētum
  2. derived from acétique
  3. formed as uracil — “uro- + acetic + -ile”

Definitions

  1. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for uracil. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA