nucleotide
pronunciation
How to pronounce nucleotide in British English:
UK ['nju:klɪətaɪd]
How to pronounce nucleotide in American English:
US ['njuklɪrˌtaɪd]
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- Noun:
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
Word Origin
- nucleotide (n.)
- 1908, from German nucleotid (1908), from nucleo-, modern comb. form of Latin nucleus (see nucleus) + -ide, with -t- for the sake of euphony.
Example
- 1. The label on the nucleotide is not quite accurate .
- 2. Their trouble with language had been caused by the change of a single nucleotide of dna-just one letter in the genetic sequence .
- 3. Replication of code sequences isn 't life , any more than replication of nucleotide sequences is , but we know that it sometimes leads to life .
- 4. The breakthrough permits direct detection of each nucleotide , allowing an entire gene to be sequenced in about an hour .
- 5. During rna editing , cells amend the nucleotide sequence of the rna , which can alter the sequence of amino acids in the resulting protein and change the protein 's function .