Strong acids will sometimes break bonds between monomers in

Strong acids will sometimes break bonds between monomers in polymeric molecules. If a sample was treated with strong acid, and an increase in nucleotides was observed, what moelcule is being degraded?

Please select one:

(a) a nucleic acid

(b) a protein

(c) a polysaccharide

(d) a lipid bilayer

Solution

(a) a nucleic acid

Nucleic acid is a polymer of nucleotides, and the acids could hydrolyse the polymer to release individual monomers of nucleotides