Question

The statement - ‘Deoxythymidine is a monomer nucleotide of DNA’ is:

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is A True

The above-mentioned statement is True.

1. The deoxyribose sugar along with a nitrogenous base like pyrimidines and purines attached at the 1' position of the sugar forms a nucleoside.
2. A nucleoside with a phosphate group attached at the 5' forms a nucleotide.
3. These are called deoxyribose Adenine/Thymine/Guanine/Cytosine monophosphate.
4. Thus, deoxythymidine is considered a monomer nucleotide of DNA.