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Adenine (variously abbreviated as either A or Ade) is a "nitrogenous base that occurs in nucleotides of DNA and RNA and pairs through hydrogen bonding complementarity with thymine (in DNA) or uracil (in RNA)".[1]

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  1. "Glossary of Technical Terms." RCSB Protein Data Bank. RCSB PDB, n.d. Web. 27 July 2015.
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