Cytosine, Adenine, and Guanine

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Key Facts

Abbreviation
CAG
Pronunciation
/ˈsaɪtəsiːn, ˈædəniːn, ænd ˈɡwɑːniːn/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Human Genome

Examples in Context

  1. The most abundant bases are cytosine, thiamine, and uracil ( pyrimidines ) and adenine and guanine ( purines ).
  2. Chiral Resolutions of Ethyl 2 - ( 9-Anthryl ) - 2-methoxyacetate by High-performance Liquid Chromatography The most abundant bases are cytosine, thiamine, and uracil ( pyrimidines ) and adenine and guanine ( purines ).
  3. DNA random access memory takes circular single-stranded DNA as storing matter and uses four nitrogenous bases ( Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine and Thymine ) to code data.

Other meanings of CAG