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polycytosine

polycytosine noun: a nucleotide containing cytosine as the only base.

Noun

polycytosine (plural polycytosines)

  1. A nucleotide containing cytosine as the only base
    • Length heteroplasmy occured^([sic]) frequently within the polycytosine stretches of HVS-I (anywhere between positions 16188 and 16195) and HVS-II (around position 310) due to replication slippage when a specific minimum number of cytosine residues are present [8, 14 ].2015 August 12, “Validation of Next-Generation Sequencing of Entire Mitochondrial Genomes and the Diversity of Mitochondrial DNA Mutations in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of polycytosine

pluralpolycytosines

Origin of polycytosine

From poly- + cytosine.

Questions about polycytosine

What does polycytosine mean?
Polycytosine means a nucleotide containing cytosine as the only base.
What part of speech is polycytosine?
Polycytosine is a noun.
What is the plural of polycytosine?
The plural of polycytosine is polycytosines.

Words near polycytosine in the dictionary

  1. polycythæmia
  2. polycytidine
  3. polycytidylic
  4. polycytokine
  5. polycytokines
  6. polycytosine
  7. polycytosines
  8. polydactily
  9. polydactyl
  10. polydactyle
  11. polydactyles

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