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They are like the letters in an alphabet because the letters in an alphabet form together to make words and the bases form together to make the nucleic acids.

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Is DNA and RNA made up of proteins lipids or nucleic acids?

They are nucleic acids. They are made up of nucleotide bases.


How many different nitrogenous bases are found in nucleic acids?

There is a set of 5 nitrogenous bases used in the construction of nucleic acids.


Nucleic acids can be distinguished from proteins by?

Nucleic acids are the building blocks of DNA and RNA.The five nucleic acids are:3 pyrimidine bases: Cytosine and Thymine (or Uracil in RNA) next to2 purine bases: Adenine and Guanine. None of them contains an amino group which is essential in protein formation of amino acids.Proteins are built of the building blocks called amino acids. (there are about twenty different amino acids)


What is C H O in nucleic acids?

In nucleic acids, C H O refers to the chemical elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that make up the backbone structure of DNA and RNA molecules. These elements are essential for forming the sugar-phosphate backbone and the nitrogenous bases that are the building blocks of nucleic acids.


What do nucleci acids contain?

Nucleic acids contain genetic information in the form of a sequence of nucleotide bases. They are made up of sugar molecules, phosphate groups, and nitrogenous bases (adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine). Two types of nucleic acids are DNA and RNA, which play essential roles in storing and transmitting genetic information in cells.


What element is found in both nucleic acids and proteins?

Nitrogen is found in both nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) and proteins. In nucleic acids, nitrogen is present in the nitrogenous bases (adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil). In proteins, nitrogen is found in the amino groups of amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins.


Which macromolecules have a basic unit that composed of phospate a sugar ring and one of five different bases?

nucleic acids


What macromolecule have nitrogen?

Proteins and nucleic acids contain nitrogen.Proteins use nitrogen as part of amino group, which is NH2.Nucleic acids use nitrogen for nitrogen bases such as adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.


Common element in nucleic acids and protein structure?

The common element in both nucleic acids and protein structure is nitrogen. Nitrogen is a key component of both nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) where it forms part of the nucleotide bases, and in proteins where it is found in amino acids as part of the protein backbone.


What biomolecules contain both nitrogen and phosphate?

Nucleic acids, specifically DNA and RNA, contain both nitrogen and phosphate. Nitrogen is present in the nucleotide bases, while phosphate groups are part of the backbone of the nucleic acid molecule.


What is a key ingredient in both proteins and nucleic acids?

Proteins are made of amino acids. Nucleic acids are made of a sugar (ribose in RNA and deoxyribose in DNA), a phosphate group and nitrogen bases [thymine (or uracil in RNA), cytosine, guanine, and adenine].


Which elements is found in both protein and nucleic acids?

Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen.