What is used to build nucleic acids and some lipids?

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Carbon:
Nucleic acid has one phosphate group, one nitrogen-containing base (pyrimidine or purine), and a sugar molecule, which in turn has alcohol and aldehyde/ketone group.
Lipids consist of carboxylic acid with long hydrocarbon chains (usually above 16 Carbons long).
Carbon is used to build nucleic acid and some lipids.

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