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What is Nucleoside and Nucleotide?

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DNA and RNA are polymers of monomers called nucleotides, each of which is composed of a nitrogen base, a pentose sugar and a phosphate. A purine or a pyrimidine and a ribose of deoxyribose sugar is called nucleoside.
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