Guanine
Key Facts
Abbreviation
G
Pronunciation
/gˈwɑˌnin/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Human Genome
Examples in Context
- A base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine.
- There are just four kinds : adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine.
- Researchers at Purdue University used synthetic forms of guanine and cytosine.
- It stores information as a sequence of chemical building blocks ( nucleotides ) we call A, C, T, and G ( for adenine, cytosine, thymine, and guanine in DNA, and uracil replacing thymine in RNA ).
- DNA consists of a chain made from four types of nucleotide subunits : adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine.