Nitrogenous base

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Food Biotechnology

The purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (cytosine, and thymine or uracil ) that are present in DNA and RNA.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture

Human Genome

A nitrogen-containing molecule having the chemical properties of a base. DNA contains the nitrogenous bases adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). See also: DNA

Human Genome Project — Human Genome Project