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What is a phosphodiester bond​

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Answer:

The correct answer is - A covalent bond between a phosphate group and two 5-carbon ring carbohydrates over two ester bonds.

Step-by-step explanation:

A bond between a 5 carbon sugar and a phosphate group makes the sugar-phosphate-sugar backbone in nucleic acids. A diester bond links two different nucleotides together to form a polynucleotide.

These are the strong covalent bonds that links a 3' carbon atom of one sugar molecule and the 5' carbon atom of another in deoxyribose sugar in DNA and ribose sugar in RNA.

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