Nucleic acids are biomolecules that are made up of nucleotides. Nucleotides contain sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogen base. DNA is an example of a nucleic acid. Which of the following is a nitrogen base?(1 point)

Responses

leucine
leucine

carbon
carbon

guanine
guanine

deoxyribose

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The correct answer is guanine. Guanine is one of the four nitrogenous bases found in DNA (along with adenine, cytosine, and thymine). Leucine is an amino acid, carbon is an element, and deoxyribose is a sugar component of DNA.