Peter throws a snowball at his car parked in the driveway. The snowball disintegrates as it hits the car. By Newton’s third law,
you know that both the car and the snowball exert a force on each other. What can you say about the magnitude of the forces exerted by the snowball and the car?
The building blocks of nucleic acids, nucleotides are composed of a nitrogenous base, a five-carbon sugar (ribose or deoxyribose), and at least one phosphate group.