Question

Relation between amino acids and proteins is similar to the one present between 

(a) glucose and fructose 

(b) thyamine and uracil 

(c) nucleosides and nucleic acids 

(d) nucleotides and nucleic acids

Answer 1

(d) nucleotides and nucleic acids

Amino acids and proteins are similar to the nucleotides and nucleic acids. Just as proteins are made up of numbers of amino acids, similarly nucleic acids, which include DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid), are made from monomers known as nucleotides.