cytosine

English

Etymology

After German Cytosin, cyto- +‎ -ose +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪtəsiːn/

Noun

cytosine (plural cytosines)

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

Hypernyms

• nucleobase
• pyrimidine

Derived terms

• cytosine arabinoside
• deoxycytosine

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: citosina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胞嘧啶 (zh) (bāomìdìng)

• Czech: cytosin m
• Esperanto: citozino
• Finnish: sytosiini (fi)
• French: cytosine (fr) f
• Galician: citosina f
• German: Cytosin (de) n
• Hungarian: citozin
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: sýtósín n, sýtosín n
• Irish: cíotóisín m
• Italian: citosina (it) f
• Japanese: シトシン (ja) (shitoshin)
• Polish: cytozyna f
• Portuguese: citosina f
• Russian: цитози́н (ru) m (citozín)
• Serbo-Croatian: citòzīn (sh) m
• Spanish: citosina f
• Turkish: sitozin (tr)