JEE Main 2022 Chemistry question

The number of oxygens present in a nucleotide formed from a base, that is present only in RNA is .

Answer: 9

Solution

The base present only in RNA is uracil. The nucleotide of uracil (uridine monophosphate) contains 2 oxygens in the uracil ring, 3 in the ribose sugar

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