Chapter 12.1, Problem 6MI

Summary Introduction

To fill:

The characters of the nucleotides in the blanks.

Introduction:

The nucleotides are the building blocks of the nucleic acids, such as DNA or RNA. It is made up of a sugar, nitrogenous base and phosphate group.

Explanation of Solution

A nucleotide is made up of a sugar, which is ribose in RNA or deoxyribose in DNA. Nitrogenous base adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine is present in DNA and uracil is present in RNA instead of thymine and phosphate group.