nucleosides
Meaning of nucleosides
noun
An organic molecule in which a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a double-ringed purine or a single-ringed pyrimidine, is covalently attached to a five-carbon pentose sugar (deoxyribose in DNA or ribose in RNA). When the phosphate group is covalently attached to the pentose sugar, it forms a nucleotide.
Information about nucleosides
- It is a name.
- The singular form of nucleosides is: nucleoside.
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Hyphenation of nucleosides
nu-cle-o-sides
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- nucleosides is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
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