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Nucleotides

"Nucleotides" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The monomeric units from which DNA or RNA polymers are constructed. They consist of a purine or pyrimidine base, a pentose sugar, and a phosphate group. (From King & Stansfield, A Dictionary of Genetics, 4th ed)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Nucleotides" by people in this website by year, and whether "Nucleotides" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 57 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2012
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