Group the following as nitrogenous bases and nucleosides adenine, Cytidine, Thymine, Guanosine, Uracil and Cytosine.

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Solution

Nitrogenous bases present in the list are adenine, thymine, uracil, and cytosine.

Adenine and guanine are purines.

Thymine,uracil and Cytosine are pyrimidines.

When a nitrogenous base is linked to a sugar by glycosidic bond it forms nucleoside.

Nucleosides present in the list are cytidine and guanosine.

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