NUCLEOTIDE
Dictionary entry overview: What does nucleotide mean?
• NUCLEOTIDE (noun)
The noun NUCLEOTIDE has 1 sense:
1. a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
Familiarity information: NUCLEOTIDE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NUCLEOTIDE (noun)
Meaning:
A phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("nucleotide" is a kind of...):
ester (formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nucleotide"):
base pair (one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands; the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA)
muton (the smallest unit of DNA where a mutation can occur)
deoxythymidine monophosphate; T; deoxyguanosine monophosphate; G; C; deoxycytidine monophosphate; A; deoxyadenosine monophosphate (one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose))
adenosine triphosphate; ATP (a nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue; the major source of energy for cellular reactions)
adenosine diphosphate; ADP (an ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage)
adenosine monophosphate; adenylic acid; AMP (a nucleotide found in muscle cells and important in metabolism; reversibly convertible to ADP and ATP)
U; uracil (a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine)
