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What is a nucleotide?

What is a nucleotide? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (biochemistry) The monomer constituting DNA or RNA biopolymer molecules. Each nucleotide consists of a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a double-ringed purine or a single-ringed pyrimidine; a five-carbon pentose sugar (deoxyribose in DNA or ribose in RNA); and a phosphate group.
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The nucleotide feedback causes the glycolytic variables to exhibit small-amplitude oscillations.
Consistent with the close phylogenetic relationships of the species sampled, most nucleotide sites were invariant in pair wise comparisons.
Replicative DNA polymerases are very accurate enzymes with error rates usually in the range of 10-5 per replicated nucleotide.
We also estimated the nucleotide diversity within each population and the genetic distances between the populations.
From 6 to 26 nucleotide repeats have been identified in the chromosomal ends of Protozoa, fungi, nematodes, plants, and vertebrates.
For the left graph, the sequences only rigorously conserved the starter nucleotide compositions.

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