OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8994

adenine

/ˈæ.dəˌniːn/
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adenina
A base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA.
One of these labels is ethenoadenine, which is obtained by chemical modification of adenine.
There are two genes in the adenine biosynthetic pathway of yeast (ADE1 and ADE2) that, apart from producing an absolute requirement for adenine when mutant, also produce a change i…
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