Nucleic acids are biological polymers that are comprised of nucleotide monomers covalently bonded together. What are the components that make up each nucleotide monomer?

a five-carbon sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base
a five-carbon sugar, a phosphate group and an amino acid
glucose, a phosphate group and an amino acid
glucose, a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base

Question

Nucleic acids are biological polymers that are comprised of nucleotide monomers covalently bonded together.  What are the components that make up each nucleotide monomer?
  
       a five-carbon sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base
       a five-carbon sugar, a phosphate group and an amino acid
       glucose, a phosphate group and an amino acid
       glucose, a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base

ookawaiioo · Answer

The 1st one

ookawaiioo · Answer

Glucose is not the sugar component of a nucleotide....... its a ribose

ookawaiioo · Answer

so that eliminates the two bottom choices.

ookawaiioo · Answer

Amino acid on a nucleic acids? Then it would be consisted a protein and not a nucleic acid