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What is the basic units of a nucleic acid

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The answer is nucleotides
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Answer:

Nucleotides

Step-by-step explanation:

The nucleic acids are composed of basic unit called nucleotides. The nucleotides consist of 3 molecules. The three molecules are nitrogen base, phosphate group and ribose sugar. The ribose sugar is composed of 5 carbon.

The nucleic acids are DNA and RNA. The nitrogenous bases are adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine. The nitogenous base, uracil is present in RNA instead of thymine.

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