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[QUOTE="TeethWhitener, post: 6633188, member: 511972"] "Minor base" simply refers to the fact that the nucleobase isn't adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, or uracil. Other purines and pyrimidines occur in the body, but to a much lower extent than the main ones you find in DNA and RNA. A nucleoside is what you get when you bind a nucleobase to a sugar (ribose in the case of RNA and deoxyribose in the case of DNA). And a nucleotide is what happens when that nucleoside is bound to a phosphate group. The polymerization of this phosphate/sugar backbone gives you nucleic acids. [/QUOTE]
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