MetaGlossary.com: Nucleotide

Keywords: Phosphate, Deoxyribose, Ribose, Nucleic, Guanine

Related Terms: Base Pair, Cytosine, Deoxyribonucleotide, Dna, Nucleic Acid, Nucleoside, Ribonucleic Acid, Guanine, Guanosine, Ribosome, Rna, Messenger Rna, Bases, Double Helix, Rrna, Nuclease, Nucleoprotein, Mrna, Transfer Rna, Adenine, Anticodon, Translation, Nucleotides, Polyadenylation, Rna Polymerase, Thymidine, Gtp, Ribonuclease, Ribosomal Rna, Nucleic Acids, Purine, Nitrogen Base, Oligonucleotide, Nitrogenous Base, Ribozyme, Aptamer, Base, Polynucleotide, Pyrimidine, Polyribosome, Renaturation, Ribose, Thymine, Uracil, Exonuclease, Purines, Initiation Complex, Polysome, Base Pairing, Biomolecules

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a phosphate ester of a nucleoside; one of the monomeric components of DNA or RNA.

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The fundamental unit of nucleic acids. A nucleotide consists of a nitrogen-containing base attached to a pentose monosaccharide with one, two, or three phosphate groups attached by ester linkages to the saccharide moiety.

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unit building block of DNA. It consists of a sugar and phosphate backbone with a base attached.

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A purine or pyrimidine base attached to a five-carbon sugar, to which a mono-, di-, or triphosphate is also attached. The monomeric unit of DNA and RNA.

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