internucleotide

• a word derived from nucleotide.
  nucleotide

  noun

  any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.

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Although organic chemists in Alexander Todd’s nearby lab thought this the basic arrangement, they were still a long way from chemically establishing that all the internucleotide bonds were identical.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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