Compounds of purine or pyrimidine base with a sugar phosphate.
A molecule consisting of one molecule of phosphoric acid, one molecule of sugar and one molecule of a base.
Compound containing a base (a purine or pyrimidine), a sugar, and a phosphate group. Nucleic acids [e.g., deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA)] are composed of chains of linked nucleotides.
A compound consisting of a nitrogen-containing base (a purine or pyrimidine) linked to a sugar and a phosphate group. Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) are long chains of linked nucleotides (polynucleotide chains), which in DNA contain the purine bases adenine and guanine and the pyrimidines thymine and cytosine; in RNA, thymine is replaced by uracil.
A specific type of a chemical compound found in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), portions of which are nucleosides.
A compound formed of phosphoric acid, a pentose sugar, and a base (purine or pyrimidine), all of which constitute the structural unit of nucleic acid.
Nucleotides, which are small compounds, serve as the foundational components of DNA and RNA. They fulfill crucial functions in cellular metabolism and are actively involved in cell signaling processes.
Adenine always pairs with thymine, while cytosine pairs with guanine, giving DNA its signature double helix structure. RNA resembles a single strand of DNA but uses uracil instead of thymine as a base. Additionally, the sugar in DNA is deoxyribose, whereas in RNA, it’s ribose.