Nucleic acids are made of which monomers?

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Nam D.
Mar 26, 2018

They are made of nucleotides.

Explanation:

Nucleic acids are just groups of nucleotides that bonded together by hydrogen-bonding. So we say that nucleotides are monomers of nucleic acids.

A nucleotide is made up of three components, a nitrogenous base, a phosphate #(PO_4^(3-))# group, and a #5#-carbon sugar.

The five nitrogenous bases are adenine #("A")#, guanine #("G")#, cytosine #("C")#, thymine #("T")#, and uracil #("U")#. Adenine can only bond with thymine, and guanine only bonds with cytosine. Uracil substitutes thymine in #"RNA"#.

To read more about nucleotides, visit:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/MLACourse/Original8Hour/Genetics/nucleotide.html

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