Nucleotide at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Nucleotide? The structural unit of nucleic acids. A subunit of DNA or RNA consisting of purine bases (adenine, guanine), pyrimidine bases (thymine, or cytosine in DNA; uracil, or cytosine in RNA), a phosphate molecule, and a sugar molecule (deoxyribose in DNA and rib

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