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guanine

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guanine

Ball-and-stick model of aguanine molecule. Key: black = carbon, blue = nitrogen, red = oxygen, white = hydrogen.

Alternative forms

guanin(dated)

Etymology

Fromguano +‎-ine. Guanine was named by the German chemistJulius Bodo Unger in 1846 who isolated it fromguano.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɑː.niːn/
Audio(US): (file)
Rhymes:-ɑːniːn

Noun

guanine (pluralguanines)

(chemistry) A substance first obtained fromguano; it is a nucleic base and pairs withcytosine inDNA andRNA (by means of threehydrogen bonds).
Hypernyms:nucleobase,purine
Coordinate terms:adenine,cytosine,thymine,uracil
- 1997,Ian McEwan,Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page164:
  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

Related terms

Translations

substance obtained from guano

Chinese:
Mandarin:鳥嘌呤 /鸟嘌呤 (zh)(niǎopiàolìng, niǎopiāolìng)
Czech:guanin m
Esperanto:guanino
Finnish:guaniini (fi)
French:guanine (fr) f
German:Guanin (de) n
Hungarian:guanin (hu)
Icelandic:gúanín n
Italian:guanina (it) f
Japanese:グアニン (ja)(guanin)
Kazakh:гуанин(guanin)
Kyrgyz:гуанин(guanin)
Polish:guanina (pl) f
Russian:гуани́н (ru) m(guanín)
Spanish:guanina f
Turkish:guanin (tr)

See also

inosine(a nucleobase susbstitute for guanine)

Further reading

David Barthelmy (1997–2025), “Guanine”, inWebmineral Mineralogy Database.
“guanine”, inMindat.org‎^[1],Hudson Institute of Mineralogy,2000–2025.

Anagrams

Guinean,anguine

French

Pronunciation

Audio(France (Lyon)): (file)

Noun

guanine f (pluralguanines)

guanine

Further reading

“guanine”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

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