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Cytosin
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cytosin
German
Etymology
Discovered and named by the German biochemists Albrecht Kossel and Albert Neumann in 1894 when it was hydrolyzed from calf thymus tissues. From de grc κύτος.
Pronunciation
de De-Cytosin.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
n.sg
cytosine (a base which appears in DNA)
Declension
n.sg
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