How to Use adenine in a Sentence
adenine
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All genes consists of base pairs made of adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C).
—Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
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Stuck to every sugar is a base—the As (adenine), Gs (guanine), Cs (cytosine), and Ts (thymine).
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
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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
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The enzyme needed is an adenine deaminase that works on DNA.
—The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Four chemical bases — adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine — bond with hydrogen to make base pairings.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2022
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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
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In all living things, DNA is naturally composed of four compounds, adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2011
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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