FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term cytosine metabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0019858 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The chemical reactions and pathways involving cytosine, 4-amino-2-hydroxypyrimidine, a pyrimidine derivative that is one of the five main bases found in nucleic acids; it occurs widely in cytidine derivatives.
Also Known As "cytosine metabolism"
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nucleobase metabolic process______________________
pyrimidine-containing compound metabolic process__|
                                                  pyrimidine nucleobase metabolic process
                                                   |__cytosine metabolic process
                                                       |__cytosine catabolic process
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Is a pyrimidine nucleobase metabolic process
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