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cytosines

cytosines is the plural 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 cytosines

What is cytosines the plural of?
Cytosines is the plural of cytosine.

Words near cytosines in the dictionary

  1. cytoside
  2. cytosides
  3. cytosine
  4. cytosine arabinoside
  5. cytosinearabinoside
  6. cytosines
  7. cytosis
  8. cytoskeleta
  9. cytoskeletal
  10. cytoskeletally
  11. cytoskeleton

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