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Nucleotide
Meaning
Noun
●
In Biochemistry:
The
monomer
constituting
DNA or RNA
biopolymer
molecules
. Each
nucleotide
consists of
a
nitrogenous
heterocyclic
base
(or
nucleobase
), which can be either a double-ringed
purine
or a single-ringed
pyrimidine
; a five-carbon
pentose
sugar
(deoxyribose in DNA or
ribose
in RNA); and a
phosphate
group.
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nucleotide
English
-ide
English
nucleo-
English
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Etym
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