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Why are nucleic acids and carbohydrates important to DNA and RNA?

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Because that's what they are made of.

A nucleic acid is made up of nucleotides, and nucleotides contain....

  • a pentose sugar (carbs)
  • nitrogenous base (ATCG)
  • phosphate group

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