what is the basic chemical unit of a nucleic acid?

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what is the basic chemical unit of a nucleic acid?

2007-01-16 04:18:11 · 2 answers · asked by Metallica 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology

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A nucleotide.

It is most definitely not an amino acid. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, not nucleic acid.

2007-01-16 04:41:12 · answer #1 · answered by floundering penguins 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋

The BASIC molecular unit (if thats what you define as a "chemical unit") would be an amino-acid. A nucleotide is a protein and so, by extrapolation, is a nucleic acid! Just bigger!

2007-01-16 06:16:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋