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Purine
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Biochemistry
A nitrogen-containing, single-ring, basic compound that occurs in terragen nucleic acids. The purines in
DNA
and
RNA
are
adenine
and
guanine
.
Appears in Topics
Biochemistry
Development Notes
Text by
M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 19 December 2001.
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