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Nucleic Acid monomers are nucleotides (sugar, base and phosphate), or nucleoside (sugar and base). Ribose is a  5 carbon sugar where the 5^thcarbon is off of ring, and the base attaches to carbon 1. Carbon 2 only has H on DNA and has OH on RNA. RNA is more unstable than DNA because of the OH group. Nucleic acid polymerization removes two phosphates off of carbon 5, remaining phosphate forms phosphodiester bond. There is a 5’-3’ reading direction and synthesis.