Biochemistry
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Chapter 23, Problem 42RE
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The importance of tetrahydrofolate in the purine synthesis is to be explained.
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Purine are the nitrogenous bases that form two different kinds of
Purines are the two carbon-nitrogen ring bases (guanine and adenine).
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