Assertion: Nucleotides are phosphate esters of nucleosides. Reason: The various nucleotides in nucleic acids…

Assertion: Nucleotides are phosphate esters of nucleosides. Reason: The various nucleotides in nucleic acids are linked either through purine or pyrimidine bases.
  1. both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
  2. both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
  3. assertion is true but reason is false.
  4. both assertion and reason are false.

Solution

The various nucleotides in nucleic acids are linked through phosphate ester groups.

Asked in: NEET 2014

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