Which of the following are functions of nucleic acids?
They help make proteins.
They contain instructions for proteins.
They pass instructions from parents to offspring.
all of the above
Answer is all of the above.
Nucleic acid is a polymer of nucleotides.It store genetic information in biological system. There are two types of nucleic acid - ribonucleic acid , found in RNA and deoxyribonucleic acid, found in DNA. The monomeric unit of nucleic acids are called nucleotides. Nucleotides are phosphate esters of nucleosides. It contains of 3 components-
a. Nitrogenous base
b. pentose sugar
c. phosphate group
Nitrogenous base- There are two types of bases present in both DNA , RNA i.e purine and pyrimidine.
pentose sugar- There are two sugar i.e. ribose and deoxyribose sugar.
Function of nucleic acid-
It store, transmit and translate genetic information.
formation of energy currency like ATP.
Help in making proteins
contain genetic information that can be transmitted from parent to offsprings.
Which of the following are functions of nucleic acids? They help make proteins. They contain instructions...