guanine
pronunciation
How to pronounce guanine in British English:
UK ['gwɑ:ni:n]
How to pronounce guanine in American English:
US ['gwɑnin]
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- Noun:
- a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine
Word Origin
- guanine (n.)
- 1846, from guano, from which the chemical first was isolated, + chemical suffix -ine (2).
Example
- 1. Adenine , and guanine , are the thicker proteins .
- 2. In a dna molecule , the base adenine sticks to thymine , and guanine pairs with cytosine .
- 3. Guanine nucleotide binding protein-like 3 ( nucleolar ) - like .
- 4. Draw the following structures and rate their relative solubilities in water ( most soluble to least soluble ) : deoxyribose , guanine , phosphate .
- 5. Anyone who studied a little genetics in high school has heard of adenine , thymine , guanine and cytosine .