GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
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sugars
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amino acids
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fats
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nucleotides
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Detailed explanation-1: -DNA consists of two long polymers (called strands) that run in opposite directions and form the regular geometry of the double helix. The monomers of DNA are called nucleotides. Nucleotides have three components: a base, a sugar (deoxyribose) and a phosphate residue.
Detailed explanation-2: -The proteins we eat, and which we’re made of, are polymers made up of amino acids. And even our DNA is a polymer-it’s made of monomers called nucleotides.
Detailed explanation-3: -DNA is a polymer of nucleotides which are linked to each other by 3-5 phosphodiester bond.
Detailed explanation-4: -DNA is classified as a polymer as it consists of numerous nucleotide units. Thus the monomer of DNA is a nucleotide of which there are four, and DNA is termed a polynucleotide because of the repeating phosphate-sugar backbone structure of the molecule.
Detailed explanation-5: -The polymer of nucleotides is called RNA (Ribonucleic acid) and DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid). Both nucleic acids RNA and DNA consist of Polymer of nucleotides.