What is the structural difference between nucleoside and nucleotide?
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Nucleotides are the building blocks of nucleic acids, and they consist of a nitrogenous base, a sugar, and a phosphate group. Nucleosides lack the phosphate group.
A nucleoside consists of a nitrogenous base and a sugar (ribose or deoxyribose), while a nucleotide includes a nucleoside plus a phosphate group attached to the sugar.
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