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guanine

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡwɑː.niːn/Part of speech nounSorted aeginnuStarts with GEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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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