[too rz duh fawrs, -fohrs; French toor duh fawrs] /ËtÊÉrz dÉ ËfÉrs, -ËfoÊrs; French tur dÉ ËfÉrs/ (Show IPA) 1. an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius: Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force. 2. a particularly adroit maneuver or technique in handling a difficult situation:
edit Nucleobases. Purines make up two of the four nucleobases in DNA and RNA: adenine and guanine. Pyramidines make up the other bases in DNA and RNA: cytosine, thymine (in DNA) and uracil (in RNA).
DNA Bases. Adenine and guanine are purines. Purines are the larger of the two types of bases found in DNA. The 9 atoms that make up the fused rings (5 carbon, 4 nitrogen) are numbered 1-9. All ring atoms lie in the same plane. Cytosine and thymine are pyrimidines. The 6 atoms (4 carbon, 2 nitrogen) are numbered 1-6.