Question
What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide?
Nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus
a.Sugar, glucose, and fructose
b.Sugar, phosphate, and nitrogen base
c.Nitrogen base, phosphate, and protein
d.None of these
Nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus
a.Sugar, glucose, and fructose
b.Sugar, phosphate, and nitrogen base
c.Nitrogen base, phosphate, and protein
d.None of these
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The correct answer is: **b. Sugar, phosphate, and nitrogen base**.
A nucleotide consists of three components: a sugar molecule (which can be ribose in RNA or deoxyribose in DNA), a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base (which can be adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine, or uracil).
A nucleotide consists of three components: a sugar molecule (which can be ribose in RNA or deoxyribose in DNA), a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base (which can be adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine, or uracil).