Nucleic Acid


Nucleic acid is a macro molecule composed of chains of nonnumeric nucleotides. In biochemistry these molecules carry genetic information or form structures within cells. The most common nucleic acids are deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid. Nucleic acids are universal in living things, as they are found in all cells and viruses. Nucleic acids were first discovered by Friedrich Miescher in 1871.Artificial nucleic acids include peptide nucleic acid, Morpholino and locked nucleic acid as well as glycol nucleic acid and threose nucleic acid. Each of these is distinguished from naturally-occurring DNA or RNA by changes to the backbone of the molecule

Types of nucleic acids: - 1.Ribonucleic acid
2. Deoxyribonucleic acid

Nucleic acid components: - 1 .Nucleo bases
2. Nucleosides
3 .Nucleotides and deoxy nucleotides.

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