What is "nucleotides"

Usage examples of "nucleotides".

It had just four basic components, called nucleotides, which was like having an alphabet of just four letters.

Its empty reagent magazine was supposed to hold two dozen small vials of nucleotides and enzymes and other biochemicals.

But it was useless without the vials of nucleotides, polymerases, and other biochemical reagents.

They would gengineer bacteria to make other enzymes, and nucleotides in quantity, and copies of genes.

But since there are four different kinds of nucleotides, the number of bits of information in DNA is four times the number of nucleotide pairs.

Mutations are caused by radioactivity in the environment, by cosmic rays from space, or, as often happens, randomly-by spontaneous rearrangements of the nucleotides which statistically must occur every now and then.

Molecular biologists are busily recording the sequence of the three billion nucleotides that specify how to make a human being.

Are you aware that my master has been named Custodian of the Royal Nucleotides, with access to the Grand Vizier himself?

Turquoise, malachite, lapis lazuli, carnelian, jasper and other sparkling gemstones represented the various nucleotides arranged on the twisting strands.

Sphinx enclosure, the hollow I formed about me when I first crash landed on Earth and created human beings, a long, tiring process from the initial joining of nucleotides through the evolution of humans, through whom I could actuate my mental processes, and eventuating in the birth of Tuthmosis IV, on whom I believed I could rely, but consciousness has its own intrinsic imperatives, so here I was, anchored in this blank, vasty shoal, cut off from the stars my home, and utterly dependent on the ministrations of a punch press operator from Lockport, New York.

She had used the base pairs of the DNA---combinations of pairs of four nucleotides called adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thy mine--to encode her message.