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nucleosides

nucleosides is the plural of nucleoside.

Meaning of nucleoside

Noun

nucleoside (plural nucleosides)

  1. an organic molecule in which a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a double-ringed purine or a single-ringed pyrimidine, is covalently attached to a five-carbon pentose sugar (deoxyribose in DNA or ribose in RNA). When the phosphate group is covalently attached to the pentose sugar, it forms a nucleotide.

Questions about nucleosides

What is nucleosides the plural of?
Nucleosides is the plural of nucleoside.

Words near nucleosides in the dictionary

  1. nucleosidase
  2. nucleosidases
  3. nucleosidation
  4. nucleosidations
  5. nucleoside
  6. nucleosides
  7. nucleosidic
  8. nucleoskeletal
  9. nucleoskeleton
  10. nucleoskeletons
  11. nucleosol

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