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According to new research, the secret to its distinctive hue lies in its tooth-like scales, called dermal denticles, which contain guanine crystals and melanosomes that reflect and absorb wavelengths respectively.
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Rosie McCall, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2025
Biology’s four bases—adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G)—encode the instructions that keep life alive.
—Andrew Whalen, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
The metaphor leaps out: Like letters of the alphabet, molecules (the nucleotide bases A, T, C and G, for adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine) are arranged into sequences — words, paragraphs, chapters, perhaps — in every organism, from bacteria to humans.
—Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
The team also detected adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil — all five of the biological nucleobases, or components that make up the genetic code in DNA and RNA.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
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Rosie McCall, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2025
Biology’s four bases—adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G)—encode the instructions that keep life alive.
—Andrew Whalen, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
The metaphor leaps out: Like letters of the alphabet, molecules (the nucleotide bases A, T, C and G, for adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine) are arranged into sequences — words, paragraphs, chapters, perhaps — in every organism, from bacteria to humans.
—Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
The team also detected adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil — all five of the biological nucleobases, or components that make up the genetic code in DNA and RNA.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
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“Guanine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guanine. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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