The blackbone of nucleic acids consists of :

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The blackbone of nucleic acids consists of :
A-a phosphodiester bond between the 2'and 5' hydroxyl groups of neighbroing sugers 
B-a phosphodiester bond between the 3' and 5' hydroxyl groups of neighboring sugers 
C- a glycosidic bond between a purine and a sugar 
D- a glycosidic bond between a pyrimidine and a sugar 

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A nucleotide is formed by nitrogenous base, sugar and phosphate.

The sugar could be ribose or deoxyribose.

The commonly found bases in DNA and RNA are adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine and uracil.

Nucleotides polymerization makes up nucleic acid.

There are two main type of nucleic acids- DNA and RNA.

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