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Molecular Basis Of Inheritance

Question
CBSEENBI12000299

Which three components that make up the nucleotides ?

Solution
Components of nucleotides

1. Pentose sugar (Deoxyribose in DNA and Ribose sugar in RNA.)

2. Phosphate group .

3. Nitrogenous bases which are of two types Purines- Adenine (A) , Guanine (G) and
Pyrimidines-Cytosine (C), Thymine (T) and Uracil (U).