ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Polycytosine

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Polycytosine is a noun meaning A nucleotide containing cytosine as the only base.

Meaning

A nucleotide containing cytosine as the only base.

Example Sentences

Length heteroplasmy occured^([sic]) frequently within the polycytosine stretches of HVS-I (anywhere between positions 16188 and 16195) and HVS-II (around position 310) due to replication slippage when a specific minimum number of cytosine residues are present [8, 14 ].

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include polycytidine, cytosine, oligopyrimidine, pentapyrimidine, cytidine, cytocine.

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