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The four-letter alphabet that spells out everything alive, you included.
means A building block of DNA and RNA, made of a sugar, a phosphate, and one of the genetic-code bases.
from From nucleus (Latin nucleus, little kernel) plus the chemical suffix -ide; coined as scientists pried apart the cell's central archive in the early 1900s.
Four flavorsA, T, G, C spell all of life's instructions.
Energy tooATP, the cell's battery, is a nucleotide.
Sugar swapDNA uses deoxyribose; RNA keeps the oxygen.