MCQ
Nucleic acids are made up of:
  • A
    Amino acids
  • B
    Pentose sugars
  • C
    Nucleosides
  • D
    Nucleotides

Answer

  1. Nucleotides

Explanation:

Nucleic acids are long chain polymers of nucleotides.

The nucleotides, in turn, are phosphoric acid esters of nucleosides which mainly consists of a nitrogenous base, Sugar, and phosphate.

The nitrogenous base includes purines and pyrimidines while the sugar contains ribose and deoxyribose sugar. phosphate is formed of phosphoric acid.

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