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cytosine

English

Etymology

After German Cytosin, equivalent to Ancient Greek ????? (kĂștos) + -ine. Cytosine was discovered and named by the German biochemists Albrecht Kossel and Albert Neumann in 1894 when it was hydrolyzed from calf thymus tissues.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?sa?t?si?n/

Noun

cytosine (plural cytosines)

  1. (biochemistry) A heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA (by means of three hydrogen bonds).

Hypernyms

  • nucleobase
  • pyrimidine

Derived terms

  • cytosine arabinoside
  • deoxycytosine

Related terms

  • cytidine
  • cytidylate
  • cytidylic acid

Translations

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nucleobase

English

Etymology

nucleo- +? base

Noun

nucleobase (plural nucleobases)

  1. (biochemistry) The base of a nucleic acid, such as thymine, uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.

Hyponyms

  • thymine
  • uracil
  • adenine
  • cytosine
  • guanine
  • See also Thesaurus:nucleobase

Holonyms

  • nucleic acid

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  • what are the nucleobase pairing of dna
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