JEE Main Chemistry question

DNA and RNA are chiral molecules due to the presence of:

(A)Chiral bases
(B)Phosphate ester unit
(C)D-sugar componentCorrect
(D)L-sugar component

Answer: (C)

Solution

The chirality of nucleic acids originates from their sugar component — D-deoxyribose in DNA and D-ribose in RNA — each of which has multiple stereocentres. The

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