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adenine

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈæ.dəˌniːn/Part of speech nounSorted adeeinnStarts with AEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA

Word origin

From German Adenin, from Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn, “gland”). By surface analysis, aden- + -ine. It was named in 1885 by the German biochemist Albrecht Kossel, in reference to the pancreas (a specific gland) from which Kossel's sample had been extracted.

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  • 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 in colony color.
  • The HCN pentamer, adenine (a constituent of DNA, RNA and many coenzymes), is one of the most abundant biochemical molecules.

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