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noun

adenine

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

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  • Researchers heating a simple ammonia mixture recovered adenine from the flask, hinting how life's building blocks might assemble.

    Science

  • The sequencing chip flags every adenine with a green pulse, letting the software rebuild the strand in minutes.

    Technology

  • Chargaff's 1950 counts showed adenine appearing in the same proportion as thymine, a clue Watson and Crick later used.

    History

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