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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From guano + -ine. Guanine was named by the German chemist Julius Bodo Unger in 1846 who isolated it from guano.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]guanine (plural guanines)
- (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).
- 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.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]substance obtained from guano
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See also
[edit]- 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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Noun
[edit]guanine f (plural guanines)
Further reading
[edit]- “guanine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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