guanine

English

Etymology

guano +‎ -ine

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɑː.niːn/

Noun

guanine (plural guanines)

1. (chemistry) 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).

Hypernyms

• nucleobase
• purine

Related terms

• guanosine

Derived terms

• alkylguanine
• azaguanine
• benzylguanine
• deoxyguanine
• methylguanine
• oligoguanine
• oxoguanine
• pentaguanine
• polyguanine
• thioguanine

 

See also

• inosine (a nucleobase susbstitute for guanine)

Translations

substance obtained from guano

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鳥嘌呤／鸟嘌呤 (zh) (niǎopiàolìng), 鸟嘌呤 (zh) (niǎopiàolìng, niǎopiāolìng)

• Czech: guanin m
• Esperanto: guanino
• Finnish: guaniini (fi)
• French: guanine (fr) f
• German: Guanin (de) n
• Hungarian: guanin
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• Icelandic: gúanín n
• Italian: guanina (it) f
• Japanese: グアニン (ja) (guanin)
• Polish: guanina (pl) f
• Russian: гуани́н (ru) m (guanín)
• Spanish: guanina f
• Turkish: guanin (tr)

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Guanine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “guanine”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Anagrams

• Guinean, anguine