Examples of adenine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There are four bases in DNA: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 31 May 2022 Trading down is as much a part of GM John Schneider’s DNA as adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine. — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022 All genes consists of base pairs made of adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C). — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022 Researchers have long been intrigued by the possibility that evolution could have gone in a different direction with DNA’s four bases: adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G). — Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2021 Each gene consists of some number of base pairs made of adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C). — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021 In the case of SARS-CoV-2, which has an RNA genome based on adenine, cytosine, guanine and uracil, sometimes mistakes happen. — Quanta Magazine, 25 Feb. 2021 Maybe an adenine gets swapped with a uracil (a substitution mutation that could also occur with any of the base pairs), or perhaps one or more bases get inserted or deleted. — Quanta Magazine, 25 Feb. 2021 To do so, researchers typically convert a data file’s string of digital 1s and 0s into combinations of the molecule’s four bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 11 Jan. 2021 See More

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