guanines in English
noun
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a compound that occurs in guano and fish scales, and is one of the four constituent bases of nucleic acids. A purine derivative, it is paired with cytosine in double-stranded DNA.
There are four DNA bases: adenine, cytosine, guanine , and thymine (A, C, G, and T).
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1. We describe reactions that cleave DNA preferentially at guanines, at Adenines, at cytosines and thymines equally, and at cytosines alone
2. Whereas guanines are the major determinants of quadruplex stability, the presence or absence of loop Adenines substantially influences quadruplex folding
3. What is the most likely reason for this high proportion of Adenines and thymines? - RNA polymerases are better at incorporating uracils and thymines into RNA molecules than incorporating guanines and cytosines.