• Question: what is your favourite of the bases (including the one in rna that replaces one of them i cant remember what its called)

    Asked by anon-341402 on 2 Dec 2022.
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      Matthew Swift answered on 2 Dec 2022:

      Uracil is the one that replaces Thymine in RNA 🙂

      I actually love a very rare base found in some viruses that infect bacteria called bacteriophage which is 2 Aminoadenine which is designated Z base!

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      Charli Corcoran answered on 2 Dec 2022:

      Great question – it’s not something I’ve ever considered before. I think my favourite might be Guanine, simply because the word is close to Guano, which is another word for seabird poop.

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      Katie Pickup answered on 2 Dec 2022:

      I guess I’d have to say cytosine since I work on DNA methylation, which is a chemical modification to cytosine that can change the way genes are expressed in a cell, thus potentially changing cell behaviour or identity.

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