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Q. A nitrogenous base is linked to the pentose sugar through

AMUAMU 2014Biomolecules

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DNA is made up of nitrogenous base, phosphate and sugar. It has deoxyribose sugar which has hydrogen at second carbon. The sugar is linked to nitrogenous base at the first carbon by glycosidic bond.