guanine

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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).
    — Then he found them, the substances that made up the four-letter alphabet in whose language all life is written — adenine and cytosine, guanine and thymine.

词形变化

guanines plural guanin alternative,obsolete

词源

Etymology tree
Quechua wanubor.
Spanish guanobor.
English guano
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English guanine
From guano + -ine. Guanine was named by the German chemist Julius Bodo Unger in 1846 who isolated it from guano.
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