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.
A polynucleotide is a nucleic acid molecule consisting of a long chain of nucleotides. Nucleotides in a polynucleotide molecule are held together by a bond between the phosphate group of one nucleotide and the sugar of a second nucleotide, which is called a phosphodiester bond.
Nucleotides are the subunit that is polymerized (connected into a long chain) to make nucleic acids (DNA and RNA). Nucleotides consist of three smaller components: a ribose sugar, a nitrogenous base, and phosphate group(s). Generic nucleotide structure.