c 3 y 4 t 1 o 1 s 1 i 1 n 1 e 1
8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine
originAfter 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- cystein 12
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- society 12
- coneys 11
- coyest 11
- cytons 11
- encyst 11
- nicety 11
- coney 10
- cosey 10
- cytes 10
- cyton 10