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Describe primary and secondary structure of nucleic acids.

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Information regarding the sequence of nucleotides in the chain of nucleic acid is called its primary structure.
James Watson and Francis Crick gave secondary structrure of DNA. It is double strand helix structure. The two chains are would about each and held together by hydrogen bonds. In secondary structure of RNA helices are present which are single stranded.
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