Question

Which of the following is the simplest unit of a nucleic acid

Answer 1

The simplest unit of a nucleic acids is known as nucleotides.
A nucleotide consist of three distinct chemical groups
- a 5-carbon sugar(ribose and deoxyribose)
-a nitrogen-rich base(cytosine (C), guanine (G), adenine (A), thymine (T) in DNA or uracil (U) instead of T (in RNA)
-phosphate

Answer 2

Its nucleotides...its contains sugar(deoxyribose in DNA and ribose in RNA) phosphate and a nitrogen base(A,C,G,T)