Nucleosidase is an enzyme that breaks the

A. bond that attaches the phosphate to the nucleoside.
B. phosphodiester bond between nucleotides within DNA.
C. bond between the sugar and the nitrogenous base of the nucleoside.
D. bonds within the nitrogenous bases of rRNA.


Answer: C

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