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the final organic macromolecule we'll cover is nucleic acids a nucleic acid is an organic macro molecule which means it's a large organic compound made from thousands or hundreds of thousands of smaller molecules there are two types of nucleic acids deoxyribonucleic acid or dna and ribonucleic acid or rna notice that both terms actually contain the words nucleic acid in them in living organisms dna is the main component of chromatin which will condense into the familiar chromosome shape prior to cell division the dna in chromosomes is organized in a specific order that makes up an organism's genes genes contain the directions for every function trait and activity in a living organism these activities include growth reproduction and especially heredity which means the ability to pass on genes to offspring the other type of nucleic acid rna is integrally involved in building specific proteins by assembling their amino acids in the correct order proteins are responsible for all cellular f