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Which carbon of a sugar forms glycosidic bond in a nucleotide having a cytosine base linked to it?

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Solution

The correct option is C 1
In nucleotide and nucleic acid the nitrogen-carbon linkage between the 9' nitrogen of purine bases and 1' nitrogen of pyrimidine bases are bonded to 1' carbon of sugar ( i.e ribose or deoxyribose).
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