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Q. $RNA$ and $DNA$ are chiral molecules, their chirality is due to

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Solution:

The constituents of nucleic acids are nitrogenous bases, sugar and phosphoric acid. The sugar present in $DNA$ is D(-)-2-deoxyribose and the sugar present in $RNA$ is $D(-)$ ribose. Due to these $D(-)$ -sugar components, $DNA$ and $RNA$ molecules are chiral molecules.