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The bond linking a phosphate group to a sugar of a another molecule is called a phosphodiester bond.
The phosphate of one nucleotide is covalently bound (a bond in which one or more pairs of electrons are shared by two atoms) to the sugar of the next nucleotide. The hydrogen bonds between phosphates cause the DNA strand to twist.