adenine
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1. (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | purine, |
| definition | : | any of several bases that are derivatives of purine (noun.substance) |
| substance meronym | : | deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, dna, |
| definition | : | (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information (noun.substance) |
| substance meronym | : | ribonucleic acid, rna, |
| definition | : | (biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell (noun.substance) |
| domain category | : | biochemistry, |
| definition | : | the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry (noun.cognition) |
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