MONOMER OF A NUCLEIC ACID FOR DUMMIES

A nucleic acid is a long molecule made up of scaled-down molecules named nucleotides. Nucleic acids were learned in 1868, when 20-4-year-aged Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher isolated a new compound from the nuclei of white blood cells. This compound was neither a protein nor lipid nor a carbohydrate; hence, it was a novel form of biological mole