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adenine
Monday 17 October 2005
Definition: Adenin is a purine base (nitrogenous base) and constituent of nucleotides and as such one member of the base pair A-T (adenine-thymine) in DNA and A-U (adenine-uracil) in RNA.
See also
bases
- adenine (A)
- guanine (G)
- cytosine (C)
- thymine (T)
base pairs
nucleotide
