Question

Nucleic acids are made of which monomers?

Answer 1

They are made of nucleotides.

Explanation:

Nucleic acids are just groups of nucleotides that bonded together by hydrogen-bonding. So we say that nucleotides are monomers of nucleic acids.

A nucleotide is made up of three components, a nitrogenous base, a phosphate `(PO_4^(3-))` group, and a `5`-carbon sugar.

The five nitrogenous bases are adenine `("A")`, guanine `("G")`, cytosine `("C")`, thymine `("T")`, and uracil `("U")`. Adenine can only bond with thymine, and guanine only bonds with cytosine. Uracil substitutes thymine in `"RNA"`.

To read more about nucleotides, visit:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/MLACourse/Original8Hour/Genetics/nucleotide.html