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Definition of Adenine

1. Noun. (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA.

Definition of Adenine

1. Noun. (biochemistry genetics) A base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA. ¹

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Definition of Adenine

1. an alkaloid [n -S] - See also: alkaloid

Medical Definition of Adenine

1. A nitrogenous base, one member of the basepair A-T (thymine). (10 May 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adenine

Literary usage of Adenine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"adenine.—A method of obtaining adenine from molasses residues has been described by ... The filtrate upon evaporation gives crystals of adenine which may be ..."

2. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"It occurs in all nucleated cells, but in greatest quantities in the sperm of the carp and in the thymus. adenine has also been found in ..."

3. A Textbook of physiological chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1906)
"adenine is easily soluble in acids and alkalies. It is more easily soluble in ammonia solution than guanine, but less soluble than hypoxanthine. ..."

4. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1913)
"The presence of hypoxanthine (also adenine, but not guanine and xanthine) leads ... adenine was originally obtained by Kossel in treating pancreas for the ..."

5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"For recovery of adenine from the picrate, see Burnett and Jones (J. Biol. Chem. 1911, 9, 93-96). The synthesis of adenine has been effected by reducing with ..."

6. Ptomaïnes and Leucomaïnes, and Bacterial Proteids: Or the Chemical Factors by Victor Clarence Vaughan, Frederick George Novy (1891)
"adenine bromide. By treating well-dried adenine with excess of dried bromine ... It is also formed from adenine-bromide by treatment with sodium bisulphite. ..."

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