Answer:
<em>Relating to or containing both fibrous and muscular tissues.</em>
Answer: B
Explanation:
During polymerization of nucleotides to form nucleic acids, the hydroxyl group on the phosphate group attaches to the 3’ carbon of a sugar of one nucleotide to form an ester bond to the phosphate of another nucleotide. The reaction forms a phosphodiester linkage and eliminates a water molecule.
The DNA strands generally runs from 5 prime to 3 prime direction.
While both will equate changes in a genetic chain, deletion would have more severe consequences. A substitution mutation usually only causes minor disorders and diseases, like sickle cell anemia. Whereas deletion causes much more serious diseases, like cystic fibrosis, and turner syndrome which is where a female is born with only one X chromosome.
