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Uncommon card · Science
Nucleic acid, an Uncommon card
Nucleic acids are large biomolecules that are crucial in all cells and viruses.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Nucleic acid quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Nucleic acid card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The two main classes of nucleic acids are ______ acid and ribonucleic acid.
Answer
deoxyribonucleic. The two main classes of nucleic acids are deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid. From the Nucleic acid article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Fula language. Fula language 70 · Nucleic acid 67 · Mir-375 63 · Filamin-A 57 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Nucleic acid. Nucleic acid 120,000 · Block and tackle 92,000 · Filamin-A 730 · Mir-375 540 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- They are composed of nucleotides, which are the monomer components: a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base.
- The two main classes of nucleic acids are deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid.
- If the sugar is ribose, the polymer is RNA, if the sugar is deoxyribose, a variant of ribose, the polymer is DNA.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Nucleic acid article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Nucleic acid
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Nucleic acid (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : File:Difference DNA RNA-DE.svg : Sponk / *translation: Sponk, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
