As nouns the difference between monomer and nucleotide
is that monomer is (chemistry) a relatively small molecule which can be covalently bonded to other monomers to form a polymer while nucleotide is (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.
monomer
Noun
(
en noun)
(chemistry) A relatively small molecule which can be covalently bonded to other monomers to form a polymer.
See also
* dimer
* trimer
* oligomer
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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
