NEET 2007 Chemistry question

RNA and DNA are chiral molecules, their chirality is due to

(1)D - sugar componentCorrect
(2)L - sugar component
(3)Chiral bases
(4)Chiral phosphate ester units

Answer: (1)

Solution

The nucleic acids are chiral because of their pentose sugar component: D-ribose in RNA and D-2-deoxyribose in DNA, both of which contain chiral carbon atoms with the D (natural) configuration. The

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