How to Use nucleotide in a Sentence

nucleotide

noun

• Recall the four nucleotide bases that make up the DNA ladder.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2020
• The nucleotides themselves each contained one of four bases.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 7 Mar. 2017
• The nucleotides themselves each contained one of four bases.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 7 Mar. 2017
• And there’s the toxin itself, which edits the nucleotide.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
• The mutation closest to the 5’ end of the genome is the C241U nucleotide substitution.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• So the researchers decided to hack that hunger for nucleotides.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2018
• Of the three billion nucleotide pairs that make up my chromosomes, there was one mistake.
  — Sarah Stewart Johnson, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2020
• Until the microarray, scientists trying to make sense of the letters would have had to pick through that heap a few nucleotides a time.
  — Brian Alexander, WIRED, 1 June 2000
• If the food has one of the two nucleotides – inosinate and guanylate – the glutamate is able to stick to the receptor for a longer period.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 9 May 2023
• The enzymes used in the new technique sever the bond linking one nucleotide to another to create a nick in the sugar-phosphate rails.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2020
• By comparison, a single nucleotide of DNA—one of the basic letters that make up our genes—would fit in a cube about a nanometer wide.
  — Scott Penberthy, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
• Look to your 46 chromosomes and three billion nucleotide base pairs.
  — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• In an insertion or deletion, though, the DNA gets an extra nucleotide base, or removes one.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2020
• With sufficient funding, the writing of genomes on the billion-nucleotide scale could be a reality before the end of this decade.
  — Andrew Hessel, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2020
• Of her billions of nucleotides, which are the single bricks that make up her genes, the authors identified 3 million variations.
  — Ben Guarino, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• But the virus with the S139N mutation — in which only one nucleotide differs from the Cambodian version — killed more mice and caused more brain damage.
  — Pam Belluck and Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• Writ in those nucleotides is a record of your most intimate kin and medical history.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2018
• The drink contains arginine, an amino acid; certain nucleotides; and fish oil, which helps fight inflammation.
  — Shari Rudavsky, USA TODAY, 2 May 2017
• Viruses steal a cell’s nucleotides to make more copies of itself, using a special enzyme as their engine of self-replication.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 8 July 2019
• When that enzyme grabs favipiravir instead of a nucleotide, the virus’s multiplication machinery gets gummed up and grinds to a halt.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 8 July 2019
• For genomes, that means synthesizing DNA one nucleotide at a time and stringing together thousands of them.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 1 May 2018
• There is a lot of repetition, beginning with the two strands of nucleotides that zip together to form DNA’s double helix.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
• In a frameshift an added or deleted molecular building block called a nucleotide throws a wrench into a cell’s replication gearbox.
  — Keridwen Cornelius, Scientific American, 7 June 2018
• This protein is the engine of the transcription-replication complex, reading nucleotide sequences and copying them for the creation of new RNA.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• The tags are engineered to embed up to 250 bits of identifying information in the sequence of DNA nucleotides.
  — Matt Allyn, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2018
• Genesis is about choosing what to invest in, reflecting the long odds of nucleotides bonding together to form RNA.
  — Dan Thurot, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2020
• These diseases are caused by an unusual genetic change — an expansion of a segment of DNA that contains a repeat of three nucleotides.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2019
• An international team of researchers mapped the genome of quinoa, determining that the grain has 1.3 billion nucleotides (the building blocks of DNA) spread over 18 chromosomes.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2017
• While Crispr is often described as scissors that snips segments of DNA, base editing is even more precise, allowing for single nucleotide changes.
  — Leah Rosenbaum, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• Once it is recopied, the replicating polymerase develops transition mutations, where a U nucleotide is converted to a C and a C to U.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024