Given below are two statements : Statement I: A unit formed by the attachment of a base to 1 ' position of…

Given below are two statements :

Statement I: A unit formed by the attachment of a base to 1' position of sugar is known as nucleoside
Statement II: When nucleoside is linked to phosphorous acid at 5'-position of sugar moiety, we get nucleotide.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

  1. Statement I is false but Statement II is true.
  2. Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
  3. Both Statement I and Statement II are false.
  4. Statement I is true but Statement II is false.

Solution

Nucleosides are the structural subunit of nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA. A nucleoside, composed of a nucleobase, is either a pyrimidine (cytosine, thymine or uracil) or a purine (adenine or guanine), a five carbon sugar which is either ribose or deoxyribose. The base connected to sugar at  position. Nucleotides are building blocks of nucleic acids DNA and RNA. Nucleotides are composed of a nitrogenous base, a five-carbon sugar (ribose or deoxyribose), and at least one phosphate group. Thus, a nucleoside plus a phosphate group yields a nucleotide.

Asked in: NEET 2023 (All India)

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