How to Use adenine in a Sentence

adenine

noun

• All genes consists of base pairs made of adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C).
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
• Stuck to every sugar is a base—the As (adenine), Gs (guanine), Cs (cytosine), and Ts (thymine).
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• Each gene consists of some number of base pairs made of adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C).
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021
• The enzyme needed is an adenine deaminase that works on DNA.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• Instead of hooks and loops, the Velcro has the nucleotides that make up DNA: adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine.
  — Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
• The bases are often referred to as A, C, G and T, the initials of their full chemical names, adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• Some errors are subtle such as a switch of a single nucleotide, for example a guanine (G) to an adenine (A).
  — Carolyn Graybeal, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2014
• Maybe an adenine gets swapped with a uracil (a substitution mutation that could also occur with any of the base pairs), or perhaps one or more bases get inserted or deleted.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Feb. 2021
• And there was a key experiment done by Joan Oró, showing that cyanide could assemble to make adenine fairly efficiently.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2022
• Four chemical bases — adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine — bond with hydrogen to make base pairings.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2022
• However, rather than the conventional duo of base pairs, adenine and uracil or cytosine and guanine, the molecules form hexamers, or six-membered rings.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2014
• In all living things, DNA is naturally composed of four compounds, adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2011
• The vast chains of DNA in each cell are made of just four molecules — adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine — arranged in enormously varied configurations.
  — Gina Kolata, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2017
• Rather than inducing random changes in the virus’ RNA genome, the drug is more likely to cause specific nucleic acid substitutions, with guanine switching to adenine and cytosine to uracil.
  — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 1 Feb. 2023
• The vitamin can help compensate for defects in the body’s ability to make a molecule, called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), which researchers have linked for the first time to healthy fetal development in humans.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 9 Aug. 2017
• These differences - the base adenine in one position instead of guanine - determine everything from harmless diversity (brown hair vs. blond) to the defects that cause disease.
  — Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2010
• To do so, researchers typically convert a data file’s string of digital 1s and 0s into combinations of the molecule’s four bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 11 Jan. 2021
• Tobacco Doctors already knew that tobacco could cause cancer, but Alexandrov’s work showed how—by preferentially mutating certain bases (such as cytosine) into others (adenine).
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024