NUCLEOTIDE


Meaning of NUCLEOTIDE in English

noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, irregular from nucle- + -ide Date: 1908 any of several compounds that consist of a ribose or deoxyribose sugar joined to a purine or pyrimidine base and to a phosphate group and that are the basic structural units of nucleic acids (as RNA and DNA)

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