| NOUN | substance | nucleotide, base | a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside |
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| Sounds | nuw'kliyahtay.d | |
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| Rhymes | abide ... Yuletide: 172 rhymes with ayd... | |
| Meaning | A phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA). | |
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| Synonym | base | |
| Narrower | adenosine diphosphate, ADP | An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage |
| adenosine monophosphate, AMP, adenylic acid | A nucleotide found in muscle cells and important in metabolism | |
| adenosine triphosphate, ATP | A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue | |
| base pair | One of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands | |
| deoxyadenosine monophosphate, A | One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA | |
| deoxycytidine monophosphate, C | One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA | |
| deoxyguanosine monophosphate, G | One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA | |
| deoxythymidine monophosphate, T | One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA | |
| muton | The smallest unit of DNA where a mutation can occur | |
| oligonucleotide, oligo | (biochemistry) a polynucleotide whose molecules contain relatively few nucleotides | |
| polynucleotide | (biochemistry) a linear polymer whose molecule is composed of many nucleotide units constituting a section of a nucleic acid molecule | |
| uracil, U | A base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine | |
| Broader | ester | formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water |
| Spanish | nucleótido | |
| Catalan | nucleòtid | |
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