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Question
The basic unit of nucleic acid is
Options
A.pentose sugar
B.nucleoid
C.nucleoside
D.nucleothed
Solution
Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) are linear mixed polymers of nucleotides, so also called polynucleotides. Mucleic acids were first discovered by Miescher (1868-69) as nuclein and named nucleic acid by Altmann (1889). They are formed of C, H, O, N and P comprising nitrogenous heterocyclic bases viz. purines or pyrimidines, pentose sugar and phosphoric acid.
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