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Compounds of purine or pyrimidine bases with a sugar, most commonly ribose. For example, adenine plus ribose forms adenosine. With the addition of phosphate a nucleotide is formed.<\/p>\n

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A hybrid molecule consisting of a purine (adenine, guanine) or pyrimidine (thymine, uracil, or cytosine) base covalently linked to a five-membered sugar ring (ribose in the case of RNA and deoxyribose in the case of DNA).<\/p>\n

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A compound consisting of a nitrogen-containing base (a purine or pyrimidine) linked to a sugar. Examples are adenosine, guanosine, cytidine, thymidine, and uracil.<\/p>\n

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A specific type of chemical compound found in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA). Similar to a nucleotide.<\/p>\n

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A glycoside formed by the union of a purine or pyrimidine base with a sugar (pentose).<\/p>\n

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Compounds of purine or pyrimidine bases with a sugar, most commonly ribose. For example, adenine plus ribose forms adenosine. With the addition of phosphate a nucleotide is formed. A hybrid molecule consisting of a purine (adenine, guanine) or pyrimidine (thymine, uracil, or cytosine) base covalently linked to a five-membered sugar ring (ribose in the case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n"],"yoast_head":"\nNucleosides - Definition of Nucleosides<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Compounds of purine or pyrimidine bases with a sugar, most commonly ribose. For example, adenine plus ribose forms adenosine. 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