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Accession
GO:0019859
Name
thymine metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
thymine metabolism
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving thymine, 5-methyluracil, one of the two major pyrimidine bases present (as thymidine) in DNA but not found in RNA other than (as ribothymidine) in transfer RNA, where it is a minor base. Source: GOC:go_curators
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History
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Subset
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Parents of thymine metabolic process (GO:0019859)
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thymine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  pyrimidine nucleobase metabolic process (GO:0006206)
thymine metabolic process [RO:0004007 relation] RO:0004007  thymine (CHEBI:17821)
Children of thymine metabolic process (GO:0019859)
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thymine catabolic process (GO:0006210) [is_a relation] is_a  thymine metabolic process
thymine biosynthetic process (GO:0046106) [is_a relation] is_a  thymine metabolic process
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