Noun
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hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells
"thyroxine is 65% iodine"
- tetraiodothyronine -
thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity
exerts the same biological effects as thyroxine but is more potent and briefer
- liothyronine -
the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet
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a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms
- metric ton - mt -
one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA
all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)
- deoxythymidine monophosphate -
a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine
pairs with adenine