Nucleic acids are polymer that gives information in a cell. The two major types are DNA and RNA. DNA is a genetic material determining while RNA is mainly on protein synthesis. It has 3 parts the five carbon simple sugar molecule, phosphate group and the nitrogenous base. nucleic acids has 5 base pairs adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine and uracil. Lipids is also called fats but it is not a polymer, they are insoluble in water but soluble in alcohol and has less O. Lipids can be simple or complex depending on the presence of fatty acid. Complex lipids are further divided into four types waxes, acylglycerol, phosphoglyceride and sphingolipids. Simple lipids are also divided into 3 types terpenes, steroids and prostaglandins.
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