Defenition of the word nucleotide
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Defenition of the word nucleotide
- A chemical compound that consists of 3 portions: a heterocyclic base, a sugar, and one or more phosphate groups.
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
Hyponyms for the word nucleotide
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- A
- adenosine diphosphate
- adenosine monophosphate
- adenosine triphosphate
- adenylic acid
- ADP
- AMP
- ATP
- base pair
- C
- deoxyadenosine monophosphate
- deoxycytidine monophosphate
- deoxyguanosine monophosphate
- deoxythymidine monophosphate
- G
- muton
- T
- U
- uracil
Hypernyms for the word nucleotide
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