What are the four nucleic acid bases used by DNA?     Alanine, glycine, tyrosine, cysteine     Adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine     Arginine, leucine, tryptophan, valine     Phenylalanine, lysine, serine, proline

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What are the four nucleic acid bases used by DNA?
   
Alanine, glycine, tyrosine, cysteine
   
Adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine
   
Arginine, leucine, tryptophan, valine
   
Phenylalanine, lysine, serine, proline
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Nucleic acids are the polymers of nucleotides. Nucleotides are made up of nitrogenous bases, pentose sugar (ribose in RNA; deoxyribose in DNA), and phosphoric acids.

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