Guanine
Guanine is an organic compound found in nucleic acids in living organisms, such as DNA. It is one of the four main nitrogenous bases of DNA and RNA, along with adenine, cytosine and thymine (in DNA) or uracil (in RNA). Guanine is important in both the replication and transcription of genetic information from one generation to the next. Furthermore, the permanent pairing of guanine and cytosine serves as the template for synthesizing new DNA strands during DNA replication. It is also essential for DNA repair, which plays an important role in maintaining the stability of genomes.
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1 journal(s) foundDNA And RNA Research
ISSN: 2575-7881
Type: Open Access Journal
Editor-in-Chief: Wentao Xu, Food Safety and Molecular Biology
DNA, is like a blueprint of biological guidelines that a living organism must follow to exist and remain functional. RNA, helps carry out this blueprint's guidelines. RNA is more versatile than DNA, capable of performing numerous, diverse tasks in an organism, however DNA is more stable and holds more complex information for longer periods of time.