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Adenine

Adenine

(Science: biochemistry) a nitrogenous base, one member of the basepair a-T (thymine). (biochemistry)Purine base found in dna paired with thymine, in rna paired with uracil. Adenine is one of the bases that form part of a nucleotide, the structures that are present in dna chains.


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