OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8995

cytosine

/ˈsaɪtəsiːn/
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citosina
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.
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