adenine
pronunciation
How to pronounce adenine in British English:
UK ['ædənɪn]
How to pronounce adenine in American English:
US ['ædənɪn]
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- Noun:
- (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA
Word Origin
- adenine (n.)
- crystaline base, 1885, coined by German physiologist/chemist Albrecht Kossel (1853-1927) from Greek aden "gland" (see inguinal) + chemical suffix -ine (2). So called because it was derived from the pancreas of an ox.
Example
- 1. Adenine refers to a portion of the molecule , the nitrogenous base .
- 2. I wish I were adenine because then I could get paired with u.
- 3. In a dna molecule , the base adenine sticks to thymine , and guanine pairs with cytosine .
- 4. This seems to be because sirtuins control the abundance of a regulatory molecule called nicotinamide adenine diphosphate which , in turn , controls the release of energy in the mitochondria .
- 5. Glucose enters the rbc by an insulin-independent mechanism , and most is metabolized to produce atp and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide ( nadh ) .