An organic molecule consisting of a purine (adenine or guanine) or a pyramiding (thymine, uracil or cytosine) base linked to a sugar (deoxyribose or ribose) and a phosphate group. DNA and RNA are made of long chains of nucleotides.
See Adenine, Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), Copy errors, Cytosine, Deoxyribose, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), DNA double helix, Guanine, Human Genome Project (HGP), Methylation, Nucleic acid, Phosphate, Purines, Pyrimidines, Ribose, RNA (ribonucleic acid), Thymine, Uracil