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Purine - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Purine : (noun)
1: any of several bases that are derivatives of purine
2: a colorless crystalline nitrogen-containing organic base;
the parent compound of various biologically important
substances
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Purine : Purine: One of the two classes of bases in DNA and RNA. The purine bases are guanine (G) and adenine (A). Uric acid, the offending substance in gout, is a purine end-product.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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