Question
What are nucleic acids?

Answer

Nucleic acids are unbranched polymers of repeating monomers i.e. nucleotides. In other words, nucleic acids have a polynucleotide structure which in turn consists of a base, a pentose sugar and phosphate moiety.
Nucleic acids are biomolecules which are found in the nuclei of all living cells in the form of nucleoproteins or chromosomes.
(Nucleoproteins = Proteins + Nucleic acid)
(prosthetic group)

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