Nucleic acids are made of which monomers?

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are just groups of nucleotides that bonded together by hydrogen-bonding. So we say that nucleotides are monomers of nucleic acids.

A nucleotide is made up of three components, a nitrogenous base, a phosphate $(PO_4^(3-))$ group, and a $5$-carbon sugar.

The five nitrogenous bases are adenine $("A")$, guanine $("G")$, cytosine $("C")$, thymine $("T")$, and uracil $("U")$. Adenine can only bond with thymine, and guanine only bonds with cytosine. Uracil substitutes thymine in $"RNA"$.

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