Nucleotide is a derived term of dideoxynucleotide.
In biochemistry terms the difference between dideoxynucleotide and nucleotide
is that dideoxynucleotide is any oligonucleotide consisting of two deoxynucleotides while nucleotide is the monomer comprising 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.
dideoxynucleotide
English
Noun
(
wikipedia dideoxynucleotide)
(
en noun)
(biochemistry) Any nucleotide formed from a deoxynucleotide by loss of a second hydroxy group from the deoxyribose group
(biochemistry) Any oligonucleotide consisting of two deoxynucleotides
Derived terms
* ddNTP nucleotide
Noun
(
en noun)
(biochemistry) the monomer comprising 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.
Derived terms
* cyclic nucleotide
* deoxynucleotide
* deoxyribonucleotide
* dideoxynucleotide
* dinucleotide
* internucleotide
* mononucleotide
* nucleotidyltransferase
* oligodeoxynucleotide
* oligonucleotide
* polynucleotidase
* polynucleotide
* radionucleotide
* ribonucleotide
* tetranucleotide
* trinucleotide
* trinucleotide repeat disorder
Meronyms
* nucleobase
Holonyms
* codon
* DNA
* RNA
See also
* nucleoside
* nucleobase
* DNA
* RNA
