Nucleic acid
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Nucleic acids are where genetic information is stored. There are two types of nucleic acids: deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid.
The basic building block of nucleic acids are nucleotides. A nucleotide consists of a nitrogenous base, a pentose sugar or a five-carbon sugar and a phosphate group.