adenine

[ US /ˈædəˌnin/ ]
[ UK /ˈædənˌiːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA
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  • The energy in your body is stored in packets called ATP as well as phosphocreatine, which are made up of a number of chemicals including a sugar called ribose, adenine which used to be called vitamin B4, and derivatives of B vitamins. You Being Beautiful
  • The energy in your body is stored in packets called ATP as well as phosphocreatine, which are made up of a number of chemicals including a sugar called ribose, adenine which used to be called vitamin B4, and derivatives of B vitamins. You Being Beautiful
  • When it was discovered that adenine arabinoside (ara-A) inhibited the growth of both DNA and RNA viruses (105), the information started a train of thought. Nobel Lecture The Purine Path To Chemotherapy
  • This work, carried out between 1882 and 1906 showed that various substances, little known at that time, such as adenine, xanthine, in vegetable substances, caffeine and, in animal excrete, uric acid and guanine, all belonged to one homogeneous family and could be derived from one another and that they corresponded to different hydroxyl and amino derivatives of the same fundamental system formed by a bicyclic nitrogenous structure into which the characteristic urea group entered. Emil Fischer - Biography
  • The technology at the time required that DNA be cut up into tiny pieces, transferred into bacteria and then put into machines that figured out the genetic code by sorting, by length, the letters of the genetic code: A, T, G and C, also known as adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine. The New, Fast Gene Machine
  • The sugar in DNA is deoxyribose while the bases are adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine. Physiological chemicals
  • Hydrogen cyanide is a component of adenine, which is a basic element of DNA. News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Furthermore, although Powner and colleagues 'synthetic sequence yields the pyrimidine ribonucleotides, it cannot explain how purine ribonucleotides (which incorporate guanine and adenine) might have formed. Convincing Evidence for God
  • Benzyladenine (BA) specifically promotes the expansion of excisedcucumber cotyledons.
  • The nitrogen-containing bases are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine; these names are used to identify the nucleotides.
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