Medical Dictionary
phosphodiester bond
noun
Medical 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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