Term Information

Accession
GO:0046106
Name
thymine biosynthetic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
thymine anabolism, thymine biosynthesis, thymine formation, thymine synthesis
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of 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
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0046106 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of thymine biosynthetic process (GO:0046106)
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thymine biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  pyrimidine nucleobase biosynthetic process (GO:0019856)
thymine biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  thymine metabolic process (GO:0019859)

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