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cytosine

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈsaɪtəsiːn/

Definition of cytosine

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA (by means of three hydrogen bonds).
    “Then he found them, the substances that made up the four-letter alphabet in whose language all life is written — adenine and cytosine, guanine and thymine.”

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Etymology

After German Cytosin, equivalent to Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos) + -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.

Anagrams of cytosine

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3-letter words

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