How to Use guanine in a Sentence

guanine

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 top layer of chameleon skin contains guanine crystals arranged in a lattice.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2015
• 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
• Adenine bonds with thymine, and cytosine bonds with guanine.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Glass mirrors are made with a thin coating of metal; with fish, the reflective effect comes from stacks of super-thin plate-like crystals of the chemical compound guanine.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020
• Recent research suggests that chameleons use guanine crystals in their skin to alter wavelengths of reflected light and tune in to different colors.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2016
• 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 low prevalence of uracil sequences is connotated by an enrichment for guanine and cytosine sequences.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• For instance, with height, having a guanine base instead of a cytosine one in a particular DNA region might correlate with being 0.1 millimeter taller than average.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Apr. 2019
• 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
• Huntington’s disease is caused by over-amplification of nucleotide repeat sequence CAG (cytosine-adenine-guanine) in the the gene huntingtin, causing the pathology.
  — Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024