n. an organic molecule consisting of a hereocyclic base attached to the 1-carbon of a deoxyribose ring, with a phosphate group esterified at the 5 position of the deoxyribose. Deoxyribonuceotides are the monomer units which make up deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecule carrying the hereditary information in most organisms. The most common forms of deoxyribonuceotide are
n. [ Gr.
n. a phosphate ester of a nucleoside; one of the monomeric components of
n. [ Octa- + nucleotide. ] (Chem.) A molecule composed of eight nucleotide units bound to each other by phosphodiester bonds in a linear array;
prop. n. A suborder of terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia, including the bustards.
n. [ F. staurotide, from Gr.