What are two common examples of nucleic acids?

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Mandira P.
Sep 14, 2017

Answer is: DNA deoxyribonucleic acid and RNA ribonucleic acid.

Explanation:

Nucleic acids are biomolecules with nucleotides as monomeric units.

Each nucleotide unit has a pentose sugar, one nitrogenous base and one phosphate group.

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The pentose sugar could be of two types (there is a small difference at 2C position): ribose in case of all RNAs and deoxyribose in case of DNAs. Moreover, RNA is single stranded while DNA is double stranded.

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