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The researchers detected hydrogen cyanide molecules in disks circling 30 percent of the the sun-like stars, may drive a higher production of the hydrogen cyanide Prebiotic molecules, such as adenine, are thought to have rained down to our young planet via meteorites that crashed on the surface.

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noun A purine base, C₅H₅N₅, that is the constituent involved in base pairing with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA.

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A lot of the DNA was poly-A -- adenine bases repeated for huge spans. — F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 02 - February 1994
The quantity of adenine, I learned, was increased above the other nucleotides, hence more adenosine triphosphate and hence higher energy conversion in the phosphate group You do see that, don't you Hm-m-m Most people don't Hm-m-m He rummaged in a drawer and pulled out a wooden box, opening it and removing a microscope slide. — Analog July, 1974
The building blocks of DNA-adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and thiamine (T) are not easy chemicals to artificially synthesize into chromosomes. — Biosingularity
The riboswitch Block's team studied grabbed onto a molecule called adenine, the nucleic acid dubbed "A." — Biosingularity
Whenever the riboswitch gripped a free-floating adenine, a gene that makes a protein crucial to adenine production stopped working correctly. — Biosingularity