having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful: an indolent person. 2. Pathology. causing little or no pain; inactive or relatively benign: an indolent ulcer that is not painful and is slow to heal.
DNA and RNA are composed of nucleotides that are linked to one another in a chain by chemical bonds, called ester bonds, between the sugar base of one nucleotide and the phosphate group of the adjacent nucleotide. The sugar is the 3' end, and the phosphate is the 5' end of each nucleiotide.
The monomers of DNA are called nucleotides, and the polymer is a polynucleotide. There are four different nucleotides in DNA called A, T, G, and C for the nitrogenous base sidegroup (adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine respectively) attached to the sugar-phosphate backbone (deoxyribose-phosphate) of a nucleotide. DNA is a nucleic acid. Nucleic acids are polymers of nucleotides (also called mononucleotides).   The nucleotides in DNA are deoxyribonucleotides.   Each nucleotid â¦ e consists of a pentose (5-carbon) sugar, a nitrogen-containing base and a phosphate group.