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nucleotides

nu·cle·o·tide
N n

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [noo-klee-uh-tahyd, nyoo-]
    • /ˈnu kli əˌtaɪd, ˈnyu-/
    • /ˈnjuːklɪətaɪdz /
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [noo-klee-uh-tahyd, nyoo-]
    • /ˈnu kli əˌtaɪd, ˈnyu-/

Definitions of nucleotides word

  • noun nucleotides any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil. 1
  • noun nucleotides Plural form of nucleotide. 1
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Origin of nucleotides

First appearance:

before 1905
One of the 15% newest English words
First recorded in 1905-10; alteration of nucleoside

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Parts of speech for Nucleotides

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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nucleotides popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 69% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Related words

  • anticodon

    a three-base unit of genetic code contained in transfer RNA that corresponds to a codon region on messenger RNA, involved in genetic translation

  • sequence

    the following of one thing after another; succession.

  • artificial gene

    a duplicate gene synthesized in the laboratory by combining nucleotides in a sequence characteristic of the copied gene.

  • codon

    a unit that consists of three adjacent bases on a DNA molecule and that determines the position of a specific amino acid in a protein molecule during protein synthesis

  • dnase

    (biochemistry) deoxyribonuclease.

  • dttp

    either of two pyrimidine nucleotides used to synthesize DNA.
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