Introduction
- Compound of base and sugar :-Nucleoside
- Monomeric unit from which nucleic acid are synthesized : Nucleotide
- Purine (Adenine and Guanine)
- Pyrimidine (Cytosine, Thymine and Uracil).
Function of Nucleotides and Nucleic acids
a) Cellular metabolism
b) Energy currency in metabolic transactions
c) Constituents of DNA and RNA