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Nucleoside

nucleoside

(Science: biochemistry) purine or pyrimidine base linked glycosidically to ribose or deoxyribose, but lacking the phosphate residues that would make it a nucleotide.

ribonucleosides are adenosine, guanosine, cytidine and uridine. Deoxyribosides are deoxyadenosine, deoxyguanosine, deoxycytidine and deoxythymidine (the latter is almost universally referred to as thymidine). A glycoside formed by partial hydrolysis of a nucleic acid.A compound where [[nitrogen is attached to a sugar.


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