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Uncommon card · Science
Adenine, an Uncommon card
Adenine is a purine nucleotide base that is found in DNA, RNA, and ATP.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 112
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 71,000
Power 112 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Adenine quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Adenine card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is usually a white ______ substance.
Answer
crystalline. It is usually a white crystalline substance. From the Adenine article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Internal energy. Internal energy 71 · Probability theory 68 · Electric potential 65 · Adenine 59 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Electric potential. Electric potential 130,000 · Explosion 95,000 · Adenine 71,000 · E-segment 56,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is usually a white crystalline substance.
- The shape of adenine is complementary and pairs to either thymine in DNA or uracil in RNA.
- In cells, adenine is rare as an independent molecule.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Adenine article was read about 71,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Adenine
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Adenine in the power ranking, all domains together.
- DomainUncommon · Nature · ATK 59 DEF 53
- Bravais latticeUncommon · Science · ATK 63 DEF 49
- Lena RiverUncommon · Nature · ATK 64 DEF 48
- Internal energyUncommon · Science · ATK 71 DEF 41
- Seto Inland SeaUncommon · Nature · ATK 65 DEF 47
- Barrel racingUncommon · Society · ATK 63 DEF 49
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Adenine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Mikael Häggström, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
