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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The covalent chemical bond that holds together the polynucleotide chains of RNA and DNA by joining a carbon in the pentose sugar of one nucleotide to a carbon in the pentose sugar of the adjacent nucleotide.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[phospho– + di– + ester.]
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