uracil

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1. a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	base, nucleotide,
definition	:	a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) (noun.substance)

substance meronym	:	ribonucleic acid, rna,
definition	:	(biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell (noun.substance)