Nucleic acids are polymers made up of which of the following monomers?a. amino acidsb. nucleotidesc. sugarsd. nitrogenous bases
Nucleic acids are the biopolymers or large biomolecules essential to all known forms of life. The term nucleic acid is the overall name for DNA and RNA. They are composed of nucleotides which are the monomers made of three components: a 5-carbon sugar a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base. If the sugar is a compound ribose the polymer is RNA (ribonucleic acid); if the sugar is derived from ribose as deoxyribose the polymer is DNA(deoxyribonucleic acid). Nucleic acids are naturally occurring chemica…
They are made up of monomers called nucleotides which consist of an organic base: A G C and T or U a pentose sugar and a phosphate group. They have backbones in which the 3' carbon of the ribose sugar is connected to the phosphate group via a phosphodiester bond .
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Nucleic acid metabolism - Wikipedia
Nucleic acids then are polymeric macromolecules assembled from nucleotides the monomer-units of nucleic acids. The purine bases adenine and guanine and pyrimidine base cytosine occur in both DNA and RNA while the pyrimidine bases thymine (in DNA) and uracil (in RNA) occur in just one.
Polynucleotides such as RNA and DNA are long polymers composed of 13 or more nucleotide monomers. Polypeptides and proteins are polymers of amino acids and some major examples include collagen actin and fibrin. Polysaccharides are linear or branched polymeric carbohydrates and examples include starch cellulose and alginate.
Sat Sep 21 2002 14:30:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) · Nucleobases also known as nitrogenous bases or often simply...
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