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Cytosine

Cytosine_definition_Brody_Lawrence.mp3 Cytosine (C) is one of the four nucleotide bases in DNA, with the other three being adenine (A), guanine (G) and thymine (T). Within a double-stranded DNA molecule, cytosine bases on one strand pair with guanine bases on the opposite strand. The sequence of the four nucleotide bases encodes DNA’s information.

Cytosine_transcription_Brody_Lawrence.mp3

Cytosine. The fact that DNA encodes all of its information in four bases, each with its own letter, allows us to write the DNA code by just representing the letters.

Lawrence Brody, Ph.D.

Director

Division Of Genomics and Society

Adenine Base Pair Guanine Thymine Uracil Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) Genetic Code Nucleotide