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cytocine

cytocine is the misspelling of cytosine.

Meaning of cytosine

Noun

cytosine (plural cytosines)

  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.1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 164

Questions about cytocine

What is cytocine the misspelling of?
Cytocine is the misspelling of cytosine.

Words near cytocine in the dictionary

  1. cytochromic
  2. cytochylema
  3. cytocidal
  4. cytocide
  5. cytocides
  6. cytocine
  7. cytoclasis
  8. cytoclastic
  9. cytoclesis
  10. cytococci
  11. cytococcus

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