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7 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine
originEtymology tree Quechua wanubor. Spanish guanobor. English guano Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English guanine From guano + -ine. Guanine was named by the German chemist Julius Bodo Unger in 1846 who isolated it from guano.
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