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nucleic acids are made from
nucleotide structure
diagram: phosphate, base, sugar labeled on a nucleotide
options: glucose, phosphate, nucleotides, amino acids
Nucleic acids (like DNA and RNA) are polymers made up of monomeric units called nucleotides. Each nucleotide consists of a phosphate group, a sugar (ribose or deoxyribose), and a nitrogenous base, as shown in the nucleotide structure diagram. Glucose is a monosaccharide (sugar) used in energy metabolism or for making polysaccharides like starch. Amino acids are the monomers of proteins. So the correct component that makes up nucleic acids is nucleotides.
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