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Guanine
Pronunciation
Definition 1
A chemical compound that is used to make one of the building blocks of DNA and RNA. It is a type of purine. (NCI Dictionary)
Definition 2
A purine base that is a constituent of nucleotides occuring in nucleic acids. (NCI Thesaurus)
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