Monday, August 8, 2011
The basic repeating unit making up dna and rna molecules?
The basic repeating unit of either DNA or RNA is the sugar phosphate backbone. The nitrogenous bases that are present, and which provide the coding information, do not repeat in any specified order along the polymer. The chemical repeating unit is 2-deoxyribose-5-monophosphate for DNA and ribose-5-monophosphate for RNA.
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