If a sequence of nitrogen bases in nucleic acid were A-U-C-G-A,which of the following would be true about the nucleic acid?
A) It contains deoxyribose sugar.
B) It could be found only in the nucleus.
C) It contains ribose sugar.
D) Both A and B are true.

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The sequence of bases A-U-C-G-A suggests that the nucleic acid is RNA (ribonucleic acid) rather than DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), since RNA contains the nitrogen base uracil (U) instead of thymine (T), which is found in DNA. RNA contains ribose sugar and can be found in both the nucleus and cytoplasm, so option B is incorrect. Option A is also incorrect because deoxyribose sugar is only found in DNA, not RNA. Therefore, the correct answer is C, which states that the nucleic acid contains ribose sugar.

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