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The three parts that make up a nucleotide are:

- a nitrogenous base (either adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine [in DNA] or uracil [in RNA]);

- a five-carbon sugar (deoxyribose in DNA, ribose in RNA); and

- a phosphate group (made up of one phosphorus atom and four oxygen atoms)

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