guanine

English

Etymology

guano +‎ -ine

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɑː.niːn/

Noun

guanine (plural guanines)

(chemistry) A substance first obtained from guano; it is a nucleic base and pairs with cytosine in DNA and RNA (by means of three hydrogen bonds).

Hypernyms

Related terms

guanosine

Derived terms

See also

inosine (a nucleobase susbstitute for guanine)

Translations

substance obtained from guano

Chinese:
Mandarin: 鳥嘌呤 (zh), 鸟嘌呤 (zh) (niǎopiàolìng, niǎopiāolìng)
Czech: guanin m
Esperanto: guanino
Finnish: guaniini (fi)
French: guanine (fr) f
German: Guanin (de) n
Hungarian: guanin

Icelandic: gúanín n
Italian: guanina (it) f
Japanese: グアニン (ja) (guanin)
Polish: guanina (pl) f
Russian: гуани́н (ru) m (guanín)
Spanish: guanina f
Turkish: guanin (tr)

Further reading

“Guanine” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
“guanine”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

Anagrams

Guinean, anguine

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