A nucleic acid is made up of which kind of monomers?
A
Amino acids
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B
Nucleotides
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C
Alternating sugar.and phosphate groups
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D
Monosaccharides
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Solution
The correct option is A Nucleotides Nucleic acids are the polymers of nucleotides which are form when a nitrogenous base is linked to a pentose sugar through an N-glycosidic bond and the further phosphate group is linked through a phosphodiester bond.