Nucleic acids are made of which monomers?

Answer 1

They are made of nucleotides.

We refer to nucleotides as monomers of nucleic acids because nucleic acids are simply groups of nucleotides bound together by hydrogen bonds.

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"#.

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Answer 2

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Nucleic acids are made of nucleotides.

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