Nucleotide

//ˈn(j)u(ː)kliəˌtaɪd//

Synonyms for "nucleotide" (7 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(1 words)

base

dna

Strong matches (2)

gene genotype

Related words (3)

heredity rna

Noun(1 words)

phosphonucleotide

Related word relations

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11 relation types

More general

1 entries

ester

More specific

6 entries

adenosine triphosphate adenylate cytidylate guanylate thymidylate uridylate

Related terms

4 entries

DNA RNA nucleobase nucleoside

derived

49 entries

antinucleotide binucleotide cyclic nucleotide decanucleotide deoxynucleotide deoxyribonucleotide desoxynucleotide dideoxynucleotide dinucleotide diphosphopyridine nucleotide dodecanucleotide duodecanucleotide ectonucleotide endonucleotide exonucleotide fluoronucleotide

Showing 16 of 49 words.

derived from

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nucleus

has context

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biochemistry

holonym

3 entries

DNA RNA codon

is a

6 entries

ester molecule monomer organic chemical object organic molecule phosphoric ester of nucleoside

meronym

2 entries

nucleobase nucleoside

part of

4 entries

codon deoxyribonucleic acid dna rna

related to

17 entries

base biopolymer deoxyribose dna heterocyclic molecule monomer nitrogenous nucleobase nucleoside pentose phosphate purine pyrimidine ribose rna

Showing 16 of 17 words.

Translations

26 translations across 25 languages.

Catalan

1 entries

nucleòtid noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Chinese

1 entries

核苷酸 noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

核苷酸 noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

核苷酸 noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Czech

1 entries

nukleotid noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Esperanto

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nukleotido noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Finnish

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nukleotidi noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

French

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nucléotide noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

German

1 entries

Nukleotid noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Hungarian

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nukleotid noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Icelandic

2 entries

kirni noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)
núkleótíð noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Indonesian

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nukleotida noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Italian

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nucleotide noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Japanese

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ヌクレオチド noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Khmer

1 entries

នុយក្លេអូទីត noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Korean

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뉴클레오티드 noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Māori

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pūiokarihi noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Polish

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nukleotyd noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Portuguese

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nucleotídeo noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Romanian

1 entries

nucleotidă noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Russian

1 entries

нуклеоти́д noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Spanish

1 entries

nucleótido noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Swedish

1 entries

nukleotid noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Turkish

1 entries

nükleotit noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Ukrainian

1 entries

нуклеоти́д noun (monomer constituting DNA or RNA)

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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