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guanine

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guanine /gua·nine/ (gwah´nen) a purine base, in animal and plant cells usually occurring condensed with ribose or deoxyribose to form guanosine and deoxyguanosine, constituents of nucleic acids. Symbol G.
gua·nine (gwänn)
n. Abbr. G
A purine base that is an essential constituent of both RNA and DNA.
guanine
G; a purine base, one of the fundamental components of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA).
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A substitution of cytosine for guanine, also located in VD 1, resulted in Gln instead of Glu at amino acid position 117, as found in genotype B and strain 6BC (numbering according to the ompA amino acid sequence of the C.
Genotyping of Chlamydophila psittaci in human samples by Pannekoek, Yvonne / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Adenine (A) binds with thymine (T), and guanine (G) pairs with cytosine (C).
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Table 1 DNA stoichiometry (18) sums over adenine (A) and thymine (T) as well as cytosine (C) and guanine (G) are given because these molecules are paired.
Diffractive optics from self-assembled DNA by Levine, Zachary H. / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
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