cytosine

Significat (Anglès)

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

Sinònims

C

C

cytimidine

Traduccions

citosina

Cytosin

citosina

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈsaɪtəsiːn/

Etimologia (Anglès)

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.