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A nucleotide always consists of a saccharine, a phosphate group, and a carbon bade

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False. A nucleotide consists of a sugar (not "saccharine"), a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base (not "carbon bade"). The sugar can be deoxyribose (in DNA) or ribose (in RNA). The nitrogenous base can be adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine, or uracil, depending on whether it is DNA or RNA.