nucleotide
See also: Nucleotide and nucléotide
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈn(j)u(ː)kliəˌtaɪd/
Noun
nucleotide (plural nucleotides)
- (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.
- 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 464:
- Magid draws […] a diagram depicting a restriction enzyme cutting neatly through a sequence of nucleotides.
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Meronyms
Derived terms
- antinucleotide
- binucleotide
- cyclic nucleotide
- decanucleotide
- deoxynucleotide
- deoxyribonucleotide
- desoxynucleotide
- dideoxynucleotide
- dinucleotide
- diphosphopyridine nucleotide
- dodecanucleotide
- duodecanucleotide
- ectonucleotide
- endonucleotide
- exonucleotide
- fluoronucleotide
- glyceronucleotide
- heptanucleotide
- heteronucleotide
- hexanucleotide
- homonucleotide
- internucleotide
- intranucleotide
- kilonucleotide
- meganucleotide
- mononucleotide
- multinucleotide
- nonanucleotide
- nucleotidase
- nucleotidic
- nucleotidyl
- nucleotidylexotransferase
- nucleotidyltransferase
- octanucleotide
- oligodeoxynucleotide
- oligonucleotide
- pentanucleotide
- phosphonucleotide
- polynucleotidase
- polynucleotide
- quadranucleotide
- radionucleotide
- ribonucleotide
- septanucleotide
- tetranucleotide
- trinucleotide
- trinucleotide repeat disorder
- triphosphopyridine nucleotide
- undecanucleotide
Translations
monomer constituting DNA or RNA
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See also
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nu.kle.oˈti.de/
- Rhymes: -ide
- Hyphenation: nu‧cle‧o‧tì‧de
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