phosphodiester bond

phosphodiester bond

noun

Definition of PHOSPHODIESTER BOND

: a covalent bond in RNA or DNA that holds a polynucleotide chain together by joining a phosphate group at position 5 in the pentose sugar of one nucleotide to the hydroxyl group at position 3 in the pentose sugar of the next nucleotide—called also phosphodiester linkage

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