Also known as: ns.
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Nucleosides are glycosylamines that can be thought of as nucleotides without a phosphate group. A nucleoside consists simply of a nucleobase (also termed a nitrogenous base) and a five-carbon sugar (either ribose or deoxyribose), whereas a nucleotide is composed of a nucleobase, a five-carbon sugar, and one or more phosphate groups. In a nucleoside, the base is bound to either ribose or deoxyribose via a beta-glycosidic linkage. Examples of nucleosides include cytidine, uridine, adenosine, guanosine, thymidine and inosine.
MedicalA complex of DNA and an octamer of histone proteins in which a small stretch of the duplex is wrapped around a molecular bead of histone. Structural unit for packaging chromatin; consists of a DNA strand wound around a histone core.
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