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What is a nucleotide?

What is a nucleotide? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (biochemistry) The monomer constituting DNA or RNA biopolymer molecules. Each nucleotide consists of a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a double-ringed purine or a single-ringed pyrimidine; a five-carbon pentose sugar (deoxyribose in DNA or ribose in RNA); and a phosphate group.
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Promoter sequences promote the ability of RNA polymerases to recognize the nucleotide at which initiation begins.
Consistent with the close phylogenetic relationships of the species sampled, most nucleotide sites were invariant in pair wise comparisons.
This happens in the case that the candidate sequence is identical to the most conserved nucleotide at every position of the consensus matrix.
Sequencing of a kilobase region of the gene cubitus interruptus Dominant in 10 lines of D. melanogaster showed no nucleotide substitutions.
This allowed the purification and sequencing of six positive clones containing the previously determined nucleotide sequence.
Replicative DNA polymerases are very accurate enzymes with error rates usually in the range of 10-5 per replicated nucleotide.

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