Medical Dictionary: Nucleotide


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Nucleotide: The substances forming one "letter" in the code for DNA.
Introduction: A nucleotide in DNA is one of the letters ACGT, which stand for the substances adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. In RNA, the 4 nucleotides are ACGU with uridine instead of thymine.
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