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Proteins are made of amino acids. As the name suggests, singly, they each have an amine and a carboxylic acid group on them that bond. These on a more macroscale can have alpha and beta folds. There are four different types of protein, primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary.

Nucleic acids have a phosphate attached to a ribose sugar between every nitrogenous base.

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