Nucleotide

/ˈn(j)u(ː)kliəˌtaɪd/

Synonyms for "nucleotide" (16 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Noun(3 words)
adenosine triphosphatebasebuilding block

Strong matches (4)

Noun(2 words)
energy carrierenergy currency

Related words (8)

Noun(6 words)
monomernucleic acid unitnucleotidalnucleotide-relatednucleotidicsignaling molecule

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biochemical propertybiomoleculechemical compoundchemical descriptorestermolecular biology term

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6 entries
adenosine triphosphatecyclic nucleotidedeoxynucleotidenucleotide analognucleotide triphosphateribonucleotide

Collocations

9 entries
adenosine triphosphatecyclic nucleotidenucleotide analognucleotide basenucleotide bindingnucleotide metabolismnucleotide poolnucleotide sequencenucleotide synthesis

Inflections

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Derivations

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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.

Source: wiktionary

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

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