Nucleic acids are large and complex organic macromolecules that contain the genetic information of living organisms. They are made up of nucleotides. The nucleotides comprises of three components and they are Nitogenous base, Penrose sugar and phosphate group. Nucleic acids is divided into two and they are Deoxyribonucleic acid(DNA) and Ribonucleic acids (RNA).
Nucleic acids are biologically occuring polynucleotides in which the nuclotides residues are linked in a specific sequence by phosphodiester bonds.
The two types of nucleic acids are DNA which is double stranded and serves as the usual carrier of genetic information while RNA which is single stranded serves a carriers of genetic information in some viruses only.
