1894, from German cytosin (1894), from cyto- "cell" + -ose + chemical suffix -ine (2). "The name cytosine (due to Kossel and Neumann) is misleading. Cytosine is not, like adenosine and guanosine, a nucleoside but the sugar-free base." [Flood]
权威例句
1. The other two, thymine and cytosine, are single ring structures called pyrimidines.
另两个为胸腺嘧啶和胞嘧啶, 即称为嘧啶的单环结构.
2. Researchers at Purdue University used synthetic forms of guanine and cytosine.
美国普渡大学的研究人员使用的是合成的鸟嘌呤与胞嘧啶.
3. There are just four kinds: adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine.
只有4种: 腺嘌呤 、 胸腺嘧啶 、 鸟嘌呤和胞核嘧啶.
4. The DNA base composition is 32.6 - 33.1 mol % guanine plus cytosine.
DNA(脱氧核糖核酸)的G+C 摩尔百分含量为32.6—33.1.
5. Cytidine ( cytosine nucleoside ) A NUCLEOSIDE formed when cytosine is linked to Dribose via a � � - glycosidic bond.