guanine

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guanine A purine base found in nucleic acids. See also adenine, cytosine, and thymine.

guanine

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guanine A purine derivative. It is one of the major component bases of nucleotides and the nucleic acids DNA and RNA.

guanine

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gua·nine / ˈgwänēn/ • n. Biochem. a compound, C5H5N5O, that occurs in guano and fish scales, and is one of the four constituent bases of nucleic acids. A purine derivative, it is paired with cytosine in DNA.

guanine

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guanine A purine base that occurs in both DNA and RNA.

guanine

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guanine (gwah-neen) n. one of the nitrogen-containing bases (see purine) that occurs in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA.

guanine

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guanine A purine base that occurs in both DNA and RNA.

guanine

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guanine One of the purines.