Nucleotide

//ˈn(j)u(ː)kliəˌtaɪd//

"Nucleotide" in a Sentence (2 examples)

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.

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

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