What is the difference between a nucleobase, a ribonucleoside, a ribonucleotide, a deoxyribonucleoside, a deoxyribonucleotide, and a dinucleotide?
Nucleobases are commonly called as nitrogenous bases. These are nitrogen containing heterocyclic compounds which form components of nucleosides or nucleotides or nucleic acids. eggs. Adenine, guanine, cytocine, thymine, uracil.
Ribonucleoside :a ribonucleoside is a nucleoside containing ribose pentose sugar as its carbohydrate component.
Ribonucleotide:a ribonucleotide is a nucleotide containing phosphate and ribose pentose sugar as its components. These are found in RNA.
Deoxyribonucleoside: is a nucleoside containing deoxy ribose pentose sugar as its component. Deoxy ribose is a pentose with out OH group at C-2.
Deoxyribonucleotide : is deoxy ribonucleoside +phosphate. These are present in DNA.
Dinucleotide :it is a compound consisting of two nucleotides joined together by their phosphate groups. eg NAD
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