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Yes, nucleotides are polar. Nucleotides are the building blocks of DNA and are made up of 3 things - a phosphate group (huge indication that it's polar, it has a negative charge of -3), a 5 carbon sugar (it has polar OH hydroxyl groups) and a nitrogen base (not polar). Overall, the entire nucleotide together is polar.

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