What are the monomers of DNA and RNA?

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Nam D.
Jun 23, 2018

Nucleotides...

Explanation:

Nucleotides are monomers of both #"DNA"# and #"RNA"#. However, nucleotides themselves are made up of many other molecules. A nucleotide is made up of a #5#-carbon sugar, a nitrogenous base (adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, or uracil), and a phosphate group #(PO_4^(3-))#. Note that uracil will only be found in #"RNA"#.

Many nucleotides join together to form #"DNA"# and #"RNA"#.

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