Question

Please explain simply:
What is the difference between an nucleotide and nucleic acid?
A monomer of a nucleic acid is?
A polymer of a nucleic acid is?

Answer 1

so is a nucleotide the adenine or guanine (OR U, T, C)? (for example) and the Nucleic acid is the DNA or the RNA?

Answer 2

A nucleotide consists of three components, a sugar, nitrogenous base, and phosphate group.

Answer 3

and nucleic acid are the U, T, C, A, and G.

Answer 4

So a polymer of the nucleic acids is either the DNA or RNA?

Answer 5

Yes.

Answer 6

so a monomer of a nucleic acid is the U, A, C, T, G?

Answer 7

Yes. The purines or pyrimidines.

Answer 8

I'm sorry I am still confused. So you are saying the monomer of a nucleic acid (the U, A, T, G, C) is the nucleic acid itself? they have the same definition?

Answer 9

"and nucleic acid are the U, T, C, A, and G."

i'm sure he meant "and nucleotides are the U, T, C, A, and G". Nucleic acids are polymers of nucleotides (DNA or RNA).

Answer 10

Thank you. What is the monomer of nucleic acids?

Answer 11

if nucleic acids are polymers of nucleotides, then nucleotides are monomers of nucleic acids.

Answer 12

Ty.

Answer 13

Thank you guys, I'm having a hard time grasping these concepts.

Answer 14

I made a small mistake, U, T, C, A, and G are nucleic bases (purines and pyrimidines).

Nucleotides would be 3 components abb0t mentioned earlier, the ribose, phosphate and nucleic base.

Answer 15

nitrogenous base is another name for nucleic base.

Answer 16

lol no don't do that

Answer 17

Super confused over here. I'm not going to take drugs.