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adenine

4 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. adenine (noun)
  2. flavin adenine dinucleotide (noun)
  3. nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (noun)
  4. nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (noun)

ad·e·nine

noun \ˈa-də-ˌnēn\

Definition of ADENINE

: a purine base C5H5N5 that codes hereditary information in the genetic code in DNA and RNA — compare cytosine, guanine, thymine, uracil
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Origin of ADENINE

International Scientific Vocabulary; from its presence in glandular tissue
First Known Use: 1885

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