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Explain the structure of nucleic acid compounds.

Answer

"A unit formed by the attachment of a base to 1' position of sugar is known as nucleoside."
In nucleosides the sugar carbons are numberd as 1', 2', 3' etc. In order to distinguish these from the bases - when nucleoside is linked to phosphoric acid at 5'-position of sugar moiety, we got a nucleotide.
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Nucleotides are joined together by phosphodiester linkage between 5' and 3' carbon atoms of the pentose sugar. The formation of a typical dinucleotide is shown in figure.

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A simplified version of nucleic acid chain is as shown below.
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