nucleotide

From nucleo- (“relating to the nucleus”) + -ide (“chemical suffix”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)u(ː)kliəˌtaɪd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)u(ː)kliəˌtaɪd/, /ˈn(j)u(ː)klioʊˌtaɪd/

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nucleotide (plural nucleotides)

1. (biochemistry) 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.
   • 1993 December 28, James Younger, “Fishy Short Cut To Mapping Human Genome”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 464:

     Magid draws […] a diagram depicting a restriction enzyme cutting neatly through a sequence of nucleotides.

• adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
• adenylate
• guanylate
• cytidylate
• thymidylate
• uridylate

• nucleoside
• nucleobase

• codon
• DNA
• RNA

• nucleoside
• nucleobase
• DNA
• RNA

• IPA^(key): /nu.kle.oˈti.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: nu‧cle‧o‧tì‧de

nucleotide m (plural nucleotidi)

1. (biochemistry) nucleotide

• nucleotidico
• ribonucleotide