If you isolate a single nucleotide from a nucleic acid chain and determine that the nitrogenous ring structure is cytosine, you could say with certainty that the nucleotide could have come from:

A. DNA but not RNA.
B. RNA but not DNA.
C. either DNA or RNA.
D. neither DNA nor RNA.
E. double-stranded DNA but not single- stranded DNA.


Answer: C

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