cytosine

[化] 胞嘧啶 [医] 胞嘧啶

发音

US /ˈsaɪtəsiːn/

词形变化

cytosines 复数 cytosines

别名

cytocine

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA (by means of three hydrogen bonds).

    胞嘧啶

    化学 生物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

c

上位词 1

pyrimidine

整体词 5

dna RNA deoxyribonucleic acid desoxyribonucleic acid ribonucleic acid

相关短语

cytosine arabinoside [化] 阿糖胞苷

词源

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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