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Oxana [17]
2 years ago
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Three interesting facts about nucleic acids

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romanna [79]2 years ago
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1. Nucleic acids are the molecules that code the genetic information of organisms.

2. The two nucleic acids used in the repair, reproduction and protein synthesis are deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA, shown) and ribonucleic acid (RNA)

3. DNA and RNA are polymers made up of monomers called nucleotides
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