RNA and DNA are chiral molecules, their chirality is due to:

RNA and DNA are chiral molecules, their chirality is due to:
  1. chiral bases
  2. chiral phosphate ester units
  3. D-sugar component
  4. L-sugar component

Solution

The chirality of DNA and RNA molecules are due to the presence of sugar components. Related Theory DNA have multiple chiral centres and are found as single enantiomers in nature. The DNA structure itself is chiral and exists as a single enantiomer.

Asked in: NEET 2007

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