n :  any of several compounds that consist of a ribose or deoxyribose sugar joined to a purine or pyrimidine base and to a phosphate group and that are the basic structural units of RNA and DNA - compare NUCLEOSIDE  .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  nu·cle·at·ed 
 
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