Select all that apply. nucleic acids are the largest of the four main biological macromolecules determine whether an organism is a bacterium, tree, mouse, or human are the building blocks of proteins consist of dna and rna

The nucleic acids can be defined as the linear chain of the nucleotides. They are one of the four major biological macromolecules. The nucleic acids are composed of the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid).  With the help of the nucleic acids, it is possible to determine whether an organism is a tree, mouse, or a bacterium or human as all the organisms have different sequence of the nucleotide bases.

the answer is:

carbon dioxide

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