cytosine en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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.
Meanings
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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.
1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 164:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cytosines | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
thymine · adenine · guanine · uracil
Deriveds
cidofovir · cytarabine · cytosine arabinoside · arabinosylcytosine · polycytosine · methylcytosine · thiocytosine · hydroxymethylcytosine · fluorocytosine · azacytosine · deoxycytosine
Hypernyms
Relateds
cytidylic acid · cytidylate · cytidine
Translations (21)
ca citosina (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · cs cytosin (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · fr cytosine (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · de Cytosin (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · es citosina (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · cmn 胞嘧啶 (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · is sýtósín (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · hu citozin (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · uk цитозин (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · gl citosina (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · fi sytosiini (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · it citosina (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · pt citosina (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · tr sitozin (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · pl cytozyna (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · ja シトシン (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · ga cíotóisín (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · ru цитози́н (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · eo citozino (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · sh citòzīn (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA) · is sýtosín (heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA)