Compare and contrast polysaccharides and nucleic acids in terms of monomer diversity and how the monomers are joined together. drag the appropriate items to their respective bins.

Monomers are the basic units of larger molecules-macromolecules. These units are connected via chemical bonds and when joined in repetition, a polymer is formed.

Monosaccharides (simple sugars) are monomers that form complex sugars-polysaccharides (long chains of monosaccharides usually form the energy-storing molecules found in food) by creating glycosidic bonds. Those linkages vary widely in geometry (can be linear and branched). Besides that, monosaccharides can have different functions in the organism and monomers vary extensively (in the orientations of hydroxyl groups and in location).

Monomers of nucleic acids (deoxyribonucleic acid-DNA and ribonucleic acid-RNA) are nucleotides composed of a five-carbon sugar, a phosphate, and a nitrogenous base. Monomers of nucleic acids do not vary that much, there are only four different monomers that include adenine and guanine, which are derived from purine; and cytosine and thymine (for DNA) or uracil (for RNA), derived from pyrimidine.

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