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base

In nucleic acid chemistry, one of the nitrogenous compounds, i.e. purines and pyrimidines, that are incorporated into nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids. The most common bases are adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine and uracil, abbreviated as A, C, G, T and U respectively.
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