Nucleotides definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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MJD (or spinocerebellar ataxia type 3) is a neurodegenerative disease provoked by the abnormal repetition of a set of three nucleotides - nucleotides are the DNA building blocks - within the MJD1 gene, which produces the brain protein ataxin-3.

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Or, they could rain the DNA's nucleotide raw materials before those nucleotides could be plugged into the genetic code. — F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 02 - February 1995
We have now isolated the DBF3 gene and found it to be an essential gene with an ORF of 7239 nucleotides, potentially encoding a large protein of 268 kDa. — CiteULike: Everyone's library
Intramolecular hybridizations, that is, base pairings between target nucleotides or between miRNA nucleotides are not allowed. — CiteULike: Everyone's library
I can imagine the next objection: those are fairly long strings of nucleotides, and the precursors are fairly complex oligonucleotides, too. — Pharyngula
It has been discovered in two forms: a longer version with more nucleotides, and a shorter, less adequate one. — Progressive U - The new media voice for students