deoxycytidine
/diːˌɑːksiˈsaɪtɪdiːn/
noun
- A chemical compound that is one of the building blocks of DNA, made from the sugar deoxyribose and the base cytosine.
- Researchers added deoxycytidine to the cell culture to study DNA repair.
- The structure of deoxycytidine is similar to other DNA nucleotides.
- Deoxycytidine pairs with guanine in the DNA molecule.