guanine

Meaning

Noun

A substance first obtained from guano; it is a nucleic base and pairs with cytosine in DNA and RNA (by means of three hydrogen bonds).

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Origin

guano + -ine. Guanine was named by the German chemist Julius Bodo Unger in 1846 who isolated it from guano.

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