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In essence, DNA is a thin and very, very long organic molecule. It is a polymer, and each of the monomers that constitute it are called ______

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Nucleotides

Step-by-step explanation:

DNA is a polymer of nucleotide monomers.

Nucleotides are made of a nitrogenous base (either adenine, thymine, guanine, or cytosine), a deoxyribose sugar, and a phosphate group.

The nucleotides are joined together by phosphodiester bonds between the sugar of one nucleotide and the phosphate group of the next.

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