Nucleic acid

• NUCLEIC ACIDS - are biopolymers made up of monomeric units of NUCLEOTIDES
• Ribose is present in RNA and 2-deoxyribose is present in DNA
• Thymine found only in DNA
• Uracil found only in RNA
• Purine - adenine and guanine
• Pyrimidine - thymine, cytosine and uracil
• Phosphate attached to C-5' and

  base is attached to C-1' position of

  pentose
• A-T and G-C are called complementary bases