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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)

Main Entry: ad·e·nine
Pronunciation: \ˈa-də-ˌnēn\
Function: noun
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary; from its presence in glandular tissue
Date: 1885

: 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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