adenine

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA. countable,uncountable
    — One of these labels is ethenoadenine, which is obtained by chemical modification of adenine.

词形变化

adenines plural

词源

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓δήν (ădḗn)der.
German Adeninbor.
English adenine
From German Adenin, from Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn, “gland”). By surface analysis, aden- + -ine. It was named in 1885 by the German biochemist Albrecht Kossel, in reference to the pancreas (a specific gland) from which Kossel's sample had been extracted.
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