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Chemical components of a nucleotides

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Answer:

Nucleotides are the building blocks of DNA and RNA.

A nucleotide is mainly composed of Three Chemical components-

1) Nitrogenous base

2) Phosphate Group

3) Pentose Sugar

Explanation:

1) Nitrogenous base
- There are four kinds of Nitrogenous bases.

a) Adenine (A)

b) Thymine (T)

c) cytosine (C)

d) guanine (G)

2) Phosphate Group
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It is group in which one Phosphorus atom is bonded to four oxygen atom.

3) Pentose Sugar
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It is a type of sugar which contains 5 carbon atoms.

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