nucleotide position

collocation in English

meaningsofnucleotideandposition

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nucleotide
noun[C]
uk
/ˈnjuːkli.ə.taɪd/
us
/ˈnuː.kli.oʊ/
one of a group of chemical compounds found in living cells in nucleic acids such as DNA ...
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position
noun
uk
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
us
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the place where something or someone is, often in relation to ...
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(Definition ofnucleotideandpositionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofnucleotide position

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Gaps which spanned more than onenucleotidepositionwere scored as a single character only.
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The intervariance that occurs between albacore is a result of this 68nucleotidepositionthat can be either cytosine or guanine.
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Of the 340 nucleotide positions, 218 (64 %) were found to be invariant.
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All the isolates had the identical nucleic substitution in each of 16 nucleotide positions.
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The highest variation is observed between the nucleotide positions 30 to 210 and 540 to 700.
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The comparison between these two groups showed differences from 14.0% to 14.5%, which are 41 and 42 nucleotide positions, respectively.
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The 30 variable nucleotide positions were approximately equally divided between first (9), second (12), and third (9) codon positions.
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The final alignment contained 1744 aligned nucleotide positions.
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In the nucleotide positions 35, 62, 68, 89, 227, and 260, albacore have guanine, thymine, cytosine/guanine, guanine, adenine, and thymine, respectively.
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Several nucleotide positions are highly conserved, with many around the terminal loops involved in the pseudoknot interaction.
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