- phosphodiesterbond
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phos·pho·di·es·ter bond (fŏs'fō-dī-ĕsʹtər)
n.
The covalent chemical bond that holds together the polynucleotide chains of RNA and DNA by joining a carbon in the pentose sugar of one nucleotide to a carbon in the pentose sugar of the adjacent nucleotide.[phospho- + di-1 + ester.]
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Universalium. 2010.