cytosine

[ UK /sˈa‍ɪtəsˌa‍ɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine
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How To Use cytosine In A Sentence

  • For example, a polynucleotide, which I shall call poly (U, C), having about equal amounts of uracil and cytosine in Francis Crick - Nobel Lecture
  • The strands consist of sugar and phosphate groups, the sugars being attached to a base - adenine, thymine, guanine, or cytosine.
  • I also just learned that methionine is resistant to cytosine deamination, and it sets the reading frame. Always finish what you start…
  • Nitrosative deamination of cytosine and adenine results in uracil and hypoxanthine, respectively.
  • She was treated with a chemotherapeutic regimen that included daunorubicin, cytosine, and thioguanine.
  • I realized that I could use a simple quilt block to represent each of the four bases in DNA: cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine. Boing Boing
  • In DNA the bases pair to form a ladder-like structure, with adenine paired with thymine and guanine with cytosine.
  • The nitrogen-containing units are the bases: adenine, cytosine, guanine, and uracil.
  • The nitrogen-containing bases are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine; these names are used to identify the nucleotides.
  • It is evident from the formulae that in thymine and cytosine a ring-like system of carbon and nitrogen atoms must be assumed. Albrecht Kossel - Nobel Lecture
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