Biology A-Level
Phosphodiester bonds and backbone
What Phosphodiester bonds and backbone means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Nucleotides join through the sugar–phosphate backbone, with phosphodiester bonds linking the phosphate of one nucleotide to the sugar of the next.
Topics that use Phosphodiester bonds and backbone
- Nucleotides and nucleic acids (OCR A-Level)
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