What is the general structure of nucleic acids?

Question

i need a little help with this..my iq is only 78.

Answer 1

Just visit

http://www.dnatutorial.com/TheStructure....

here general structure of nucliec acid id given.

Answer 2

Nucleic acids are made of nucleotides and each nucleotide is made up of:

*5-carbon sugar (pentose)

*Nitrogenous base

*Phosphate group

DNA and RNA are nucleic acids.

DNA vs. RNA

DNA

_deoxyribose (sugar)

_has the base Thymine (T)

_double-stranded

RNA

_ribose (sugar)

_has the base Uracil (U)

_single-stranded

Hope this helps :)

Answer 3

Wow.  For an i.q. of 78, you still managed grammar far superior to many of the other Y!A question askers!!!  Way to go!

But "Fitzy" got the answer that I beleive you are looking for.

Answer 4

My spelling may not be correct, but:

The two main nucleic acids are DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid).

DNA is composed of nucleotides in a double-helix structure (like a twisting staircase. The nucleotides are called adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine. Adenine on one side of the helix bonds to thymine on the other. Guanine and cytosine bond in the same way.

The best way to describe RNA is one half of the double-helix of DNA, but with Uracil instead of Thymine.