NEET BIOLOGY

CELL STRUCTURES AND FUNCTION

BIO MOLECULES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Nucleic acids are made out of which elements? Choose all that apply.
A
Carbon
B
Hydrogen
C
Oxygen
D
Nitrogen
E
Phosphorus
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Nucleic acids include RNA (ribonucleic acid) as well as DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). Both types of nucleic acids contain the elements carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nucleic acids are made of nitrogen-containing bases, phosphate groups, and sugar molecules.

Detailed explanation-3: -The basic elements that compose DNA are five atoms: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, and hydrogen. A nucleoside is the combination of these atoms into two structures, a five-carbon sugar molecule called deoxyribose, which is responsible for the name of DNA, and a phosphate group.

Detailed explanation-4: -In organic systems, the phosphate molecule is the form that bodily phosphorus is used mainly in the form of nucleic acids DNA and RNA and the nucleotides that form them.

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