Talk:Guanine
From Academic Kids
"guano" is what you might be thinking of in that last sentence. -- dja
it was mentioned on several web sites, so I put it in. guano is bat dung to my recollection, tho it may be high in Guanine ...
My understanding is that the guanine in fish scales and some dungs is the same as the guanine in DNA, only not polymerized or not polymerized through nucleosides at least... --128.218.169.187 00:38, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
OK, sorry, I had changed it, but have now changed it back. It's also a mineral, wouldn't you know. <*shrug*> As long as the biochemical meaning is there, that's good enough for me.
The present version leaves an impression (to a layman) that beyond the liver and the pancreas, there is little guanine in the body while it is everywhere (by virtue of DNA)
According to this source ( [1] (http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2003/aprqtr/21cfr73.1329.htm) ) fish Guanine is a mixture of guanine and hypoxanthine; anyone care to corroborate so it can be added to the article? I'm no biochemist. Ziggurat 02:46, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
