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polycytosines

polycytosines is the plural of polycytosine.

Meaning of polycytosine

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

Questions about polycytosines

What is polycytosines the plural of?
Polycytosines is the plural of polycytosine.

Words near polycytosines in the dictionary

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

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