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–noun Biochemistry.

any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.

[Origin: 1905–10; alter. of nucleoside

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n. Any of various compounds consisting of a nucleoside combined with a phosphate group and forming the basic constituent of DNA and RNA.

[Alteration of nucleoside.]

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nucleotide
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a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)

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Any of a group of organic compounds composed of a nucleoside linked to a phosphate group. Nucleotides are the basic building blocks of nucleic acids.

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