Polycytosine

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A nucleotide containing cytosine as the only base

    "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 ]."

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"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 ]."

Etymology

From poly- + cytosine.

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