nucleobase

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Proto-Italic *knuks

Latin nux

Latin nucleuslbor.

English nucleus

English nucleo-

English base

English nucleobase

From nucleo- + base.

Noun

nucleobase (plural nucleobases)

1. (biochemistry) The base of a nucleic acid, such as thymine, uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.

Hyponyms

• thymine
• uracil
• adenine
• cytosine
• guanine
• See also Thesaurus:nucleobase

Holonyms

• nucleic acid

Translations

the nitrogenous base of a nucleic acid

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 核碱基 (hé jiǎnjī), 含氮碱基 (hándàn jiǎnjī, literally “nitrogenous base”), 碱基 (zh) (jiǎnjī, literally “base”)

• Polish: zasada azotowa f