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Answer for the clue "Base in DNA and RNA ", 7 letters:
adenine

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context biochemistry genetics English) A base, C 5 H 5 N 5 , found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA [syn: A ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crystaline base, 1885, coined by German physiologist/chemist Albrecht Kossel (1853-1927) from Greek aden "gland" (see inguinal ) + chemical suffix -ine (2). So called because it was derived from the pancreas of an ox.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Adenine ( A , Ade ) is a nucleobase (a purine derivative). Its derivatives have a variety of roles in biochemistry including cellular respiration , in the form of both the energy-rich adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and the cofactors nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide ...

Usage examples of adenine.

This schematic represents a portion of the nucleotidesin this case cytosine, adenine, and guaninefrom the Grayson genome.

Spiraling pairs of cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine: we know these are instructions for growth, for the development of life, all coded in sequences of paired elements.

The limited informational content of DNAthe four bases adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thyminedid not seem adequate to build the fantastically varied amino acid necklaces.

They represented the nucleotides adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine.

The toggle must have been set for DNA mode, since the buttons were displaying the Neanderthal glyphs for adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine.

Or, in other words, a 1 in 4 chance, since there is adenine, guanine, cytocine and uracil in which to fill the proper spot.

Glutamic acid, without which ammonia accumulates in the brain and kills, dribbled along the floor while they glared, and D-ribose, and D-2-deoxyribose, adenine, guanine, uracil, cytosine, thymine and 5-methyl cytosine without which no thing higher than a trilobite can pass on its shape and meaning to its next generation.

She had used the base pairs of the DNA---combinations of pairs of four nucleotides called adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thy mine--to encode her message.

She had used the base pairs of the DNA---combinations of pairs of four nucleotides called adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thy mine--to encode her message.

The toggle must have been set for DNA mode, since the buttons were displaying the Neanderthal glyphs for adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine.

It was only the light—violet-blue and orange-red—that mattered, the incredible shower of photons that excited her chlorophyll, passing electrons down carrier molecules to form adenosine diphosphate and nicotinamide adenine dinucleo .

Each side of these base pairs can either be an adenine -thymine or a guanine -cytosine bond, and they can be aligned either direction, so there are four choices.

In fact, adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine molecules have quite different structures, and their electron density distributions as seen by a scanning probe microscope are readily distinguished by an experienced eye.

The hydrogen cyanide combines in big multimolecular groups to form adenine, a constituent of nucleic acids.