What is a nucleic acid monomer and polymer?

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Rawda Eada
Dec 14, 2015

The monomer is the nucleotide which in turn is made of three subunts. They are the nitrogen base, the phoosphate group and the sugar part.
The polymer is either a DNA or RND molecule based on the type of the nucelotide.

Explanation:

DNA building units have dexoyribose as a sugar, and four types of nitrogen bases are used in building these subunits, They are adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
RNA has the oxyribose as a sugar part in the building unit. The nitrogen bases are one of four, which are adenine, uracil, guanine, and cytosine.

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