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nucleotides

nucleotides is the plural of nucleotide.

Meaning of nucleotide

Noun

nucleotide (plural nucleotides)

  1. 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.
    • With a genome of only 400 million or so nucleotide bases, the pufferfish, Fugu rubripes rubripes, has the smallest known genome of any vertebrate animal. […] But the region of DNA between the landmarks can be a million or more nucleotides long.1993 December 28, James Younger, “Fishy Short Cut To Mapping Human Genome”, in The New York Times

Phrases with nucleotides

Questions about nucleotides

What is nucleotides the plural of?
Nucleotides is the plural of nucleotide.

Words near nucleotides in the dictionary

  1. nucleosynthetically
  2. nucleotic
  3. nucleotidase
  4. nucleotidases
  5. nucleotide
  6. nucleotides
  7. nucleotidic
  8. nucleotidyl
  9. nucleotidylation
  10. nucleotidylations
  11. nucleotidylexotransferase

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