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cytosine

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈsaɪtəsiːn/Part of speech nounSorted ceinostyStarts with CEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine

Word origin

After German Cytosin, equivalent to Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos) + -ine. Cytosine was discovered and named by the German biochemists Albrecht Kossel and Albert Neumann in 1894 when it was hydrolyzed from calf thymus tissues.

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  • 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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