Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
base (in various senses).
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Examples
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Since at any moment a cell is organizing amino acids at the incredible rate of thousands per second, why not store the information in the nucleus directly as a string of amino acids, or have twenty different baselike molecules, each one indicating a specific amino acid, rather than the three bases that nature actually uses?
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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Since at any moment a cell is organizing amino acids at the incredible rate of thousands per second, why not store the information in the nucleus directly as a string of amino acids, or have twenty different baselike molecules, each one indicating a specific amino acid, rather than the three bases that nature actually uses?
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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