What does "guanine" mean?

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).

What is a synonym for "guanine"?

Common synonyms include: g, g base, purine base.

Pronounced //ˈɡwɑː.niːn//.

/ˈɡwɑː.niːn/ noun

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Noun

1
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).
"Then he found them, the substances that made up the four-letter alphabet in whose language all life is written — adenine and cytosine, guanine and thymine."
2
a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine wordnet

"DNA is composed of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine."

From guano + -ine. Guanine was named by the German chemist Julius Bodo Unger in 1846 who isolated it from guano.