NucleoTides vs nucleoSides

How to decide whether to say nucleoTide or nucleoSide? Here’s a guide… Remember: A nucleoSide is a nucleobase (base) with a side of sugar (ribose for RNA & deoxyribose for DNA). If you add phosphate group(s), you get a nucleoTide. When you see that T, think energy (rhyme that in your head) because those phosphate groups provide the energy needed to link these letters up to form nucleic acids! +1 phosphate gives you a nucleoside MONOphosphate (NMP (if the nucleoside has ribose as the sugar) or dNMP (if the sugar’s deoxyribose)) (e.g. AMP)  +2 phosphates gives you a nucleoside Diphosphate (NDP or dNDP) (e.g. ADP)  +3 phosphates gives you a nucleoside TRIphosphate (NTP or dNTP) (e.g. ATP - the energy money we keep talking about)    It may look confusing that the nucleoTides have nucleoSide in their name as written above, but that’s because it’s written as its parts - nucleoSide + phosphate (nucleoTide has the phosphate so if we wrote nucleoTide monophosphate, etc. that would be “redundant”  So, building nucleic acids up from their parts…    BASE     BASE + SUGAR = nucleoSIDE    BASE + SUGAR + PHOSPHATE = nucleoTIDE     NUCLEOTIDE + NUCLEOTIDE + NUCLEOTIDE . . . = NUCLEIC ACID  YouTube:    • NucleoTides vs nucleoSides     more on nucleic acid structure here: http://bit.ly/nucleicacids2;    • DNA structure - a biochemical look inside ...   more on AZT & nucleoside analogs: http://bit.ly/2Xb5LAL & http://bit.ly/womenresearchingHIV         more about all sorts of things: #365DaysOfScience All (with topics listed) 👉 http://bit.ly/2OllAB0 or search blog: http://thebumblingbiochemist.com