nucleotide

See also: Nucleotide and nucléotide

English

Etymology

From nucleo- (“relating to the nucleus”) +‎ -ide (“chemical suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)u(ː)kliəˌtaɪd/

Noun

nucleotide (plural nucleotides)

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.
   • 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, Penguin Books (2001), page 464:

     Magid draws [...] a diagram depicting a restriction enzyme cutting neatly through a sequence of nucleotides.

Hyponyms

• adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
• adenylate
• guanylate
• cytidylate
• thymidylate
• uridylate

Meronyms

• nucleobase

Holonyms

• codon
• DNA
• RNA

Derived terms

• cyclic nucleotide
• deoxynucleotide
• deoxyribonucleotide
• desoxynucleotide
• dideoxynucleotide
• dinucleotide
• glyceronucleotide
• heteronucleotide
• homonucleotide
• internucleotide
• kilonucleotide
• meganucleotide
• mononucleotide
• nucleotidyl
• oligodeoxynucleotide
• oligonucleotide
• polynucleotidase
• polynucleotide
• radionucleotide
• ribonucleotide
• tetranucleotide
• trinucleotide
• trinucleotide repeat disorder

 

Translations

monomer constituting DNA or RNA

• Catalan: nucleòtid m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 核苷酸 (hat⁶ gam¹ syun¹)

  Mandarin: 核苷酸 (zh) (hégānsuān)

  Min Nan: 核苷酸 (hu̍t-kam-sng, he̍k-kam-sng)

• Czech: nukleotid m
• Esperanto: nukleotido
• Finnish: nukleotidi (fi)
• French: nucléotide (fr) m
• German: Nukleotid n
• Hungarian: nukleotid (hu)
• Icelandic: kirni n, núkleótíð n
• Italian: nucleotide (it) m
• Japanese: ヌクレオチド (nukureochido)
• Khmer: នុយក្លេអូទីត (nuykleeʼoutiit)
• Korean: 뉴클레오티드 (nyukeulle'otideu)
• Maori: pūiokarihi
• Portuguese: nucleotídeo (pt) m
• Romanian: nucleotidă f
• Russian: нуклеоти́д (ru) m (nukleotíd)
• Spanish: nucleótido (es) m
• Swedish: nukleotid (sv) c
• Turkish: nükleotit (tr)

See also

• nucleoside
• nucleobase
• DNA
• RNA

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu.kle.oˈti.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: nu‧cle‧o‧tì‧de

Noun

nucleotide m (plural nucleotidi)

1. (biochemistry) nucleotide

Related terms

• nucleotidico
• ribonucleotide