cytosine

Significado (Inglés)

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

Conceptos

citosina

Sinónimos

C

C

cytimidine

Traducciones

cytosine

Cytosin

citosina

citosina

سايتوسين

cytosine

citosina

Citosina

السيتوساين

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈsaɪtəsiːn/

Etimología (Inglés)

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.