Nucleotide

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Used for

activated aminoacid, adenylated aminoacid, aminoacyl nucleotide, aminoacyladenylate, nucleoside diphosphate

See for

flavin nucleotide

Broader Terms

nucleoside

Narrower Terms

deoxyribonucleotide, nucleoside monophosphate, nucleoside triphosphate, polynucleotide, purine nucleotide, pyridine nucleotide, pyrimidine nucleotide, ribonucleotide, sugar nucleotide, synthetic nucleotide

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

  • Sugar The sugar that is part of a nucleotide is a 5-carbon atom sugar in its ring form.
  • The noun nucleotide has one meaning: Meaning #1: a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) Wikipedia nucleotide A nucleotide is a chemical compound that consists of a heterocyclic base, a sugar, and one or more phosphate groups.
  • What is this chemical group? I need to be able to illustrate clearly why NUCLEIC ACID is not the correct answer to this question but NUCLEOTIDE is.
  • So that once for every 100 nucleotides added to the nucleotide in question in the template, a di deoxy form of the nucleotide is added.
  • What is a rna nucleotide? A nucleotide is a nucleotide letter 'A', 'U', 'G', 'C', 'R', 'Y', 'N'.

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