First carbon of pentose sugar of nucleic acid joins
Correct Answer: N-1of pyrimidine
Description: Pentose sugar present in DNAs is deoxyribose and in RNAs it is ribose. A pentose sugar (ribose or deoxyribose) is linked to a nitrogenous base (purine or pyrimidine) covalent N-glycosidic bond to form nucleoside. This linkage joins the Carbon-I of pentose sugar with nitrogen-9 of the purine base or nitrogen-I of pyrimidine base.
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