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guanine

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Ball-and-stick model of a guanine molecule. Key: black = carbon, blue = nitrogen, red = oxygen, white = hydrogen.

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Etymology edit

guano +‎ -ine. Guanine was named by the German chemist Julius Bodo Unger in 1846 who isolated it from guano.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡwɑː.niːn/
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  • Rhymes: -ɑːniːn

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guanine (plural guanines)

  1. (chemistry) A substance first obtained from guano; it is a nucleic base and pairs with cytosine in DNA and RNA (by means of three hydrogen bonds).
    Hypernyms: nucleobase, purine
    Coordinate terms: adenine, cytosine, thymine, uracil
    • 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 164:
      Then he found them, the substances that made up the four-letter alphabet in whose language all life is written — adenine and cytosine, guanine and thymine.

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  • inosine (a nucleobase susbstitute for guanine)

Further reading edit

  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Guanine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • “guanine”, in Mindat.org‎[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

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guanine f (plural guanines)

  1. guanine

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