Nucleotide = nucleoside +
phosphate
A nucleotide is a nucleoside
monophosphate. The 9'-C of adenine base
is added to the 1'-C of deoxyribose, to
produce the nucleoside Deoxyadenylic acid. The
nucleotide is formed by addition of the monophospate to
the projecting 5’-carbon of the sugar. The other three nucleotides are formed in an
analogous way.
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