Meaning Of The Word Nucleotide
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Nucleotide Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Nucleotide?
nucleotide in American English
any of several phosphate esters of nucleosides: the basic unit of nucleic acids noun: any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil nucleotide in British English noun: a compound consisting of a nucleoside linked to phosphoric acid. Nucleic acids are made up of long chains (polynucleotides) of such compounds |
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