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A nucleic acid (either DNA/RNA) is made of a nitrogenous base (adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine and uracil), a pentose sugar and a phosphate group. This forms a nucleotide (or a nucleoside monophosphate), and is the basic unit for the DNA double helical structure.

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11y ago

Depends on what you mean, but usually either:

A gene

A base

A codon

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The subunit for a gene is a string of DNA bases that code for a protein.

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the nucleic acids: A T C G

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a nucleotide

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Amino Acid

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