nucleoside

English

Noun

Wikipedia nucleoside (plural nucleosides)

1. (biochemistry) 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.

Meronyms

• nucleobase

Translations

organic molecule

• Italian: nucleoside (it) m

• Japanese: ヌクレオシド (ja) (nukureoshido)
• Khmer: ខាងស្នូល (km) (khang snol)

See also

• DNA
• nucleobase
• nucleotide
• RNA

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Italian

Noun

Wikipedia ^it

nucleoside m (plural nucleosidi)

1. (biochemistry) nucleoside