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- purine
- Nitrogenous compounds (bases) that occur in nucleic acids
- pyrimidine
- type of organic base
- protein
- they are polymers of amino acids, joined by peptide bonds
- nitrogen base
- A basic compound that contains nitrogen, such as a purine or pyrimidine
- deoxyribose
- A nucleic acid constituent of all animal, microbial, and plant cells
- ribose
- Five-carbon sugar found in RNA
- DNA
- the genetic material in the nuclei of all cells
- RNA
- molecules, which are linear chains of ribonucleotides, perform a number of critical functions.
- nucleotide
- A cellular constituent that is one of the building blocks of ribonucleic acids (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
- amino acid
- Amino acids are organic compounds made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen
- codon
- A triplet in a chain of nucleic acids in mRNA that specifies the order in which amino acids are added