having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful: an indolent person. 2. Pathology. causing little or no pain; inactive or relatively benign: an indolent ulcer that is not painful and is slow to heal.
DNA and RNA are composed of nucleotides that are linked to one another in a chain by chemical bonds, called ester bonds, between the sugar base of one nucleotide and the phosphate group of the adjacent nucleotide. The sugar is the 3' end, and the phosphate is the 5' end of each nucleiotide.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. DNA and RNA are polymers. Collectively, DNA and RNA are called nucleic acids. The subunits of nucleic acids are called nucleotides. Nucleotide monomers form nucleic acid polymers.A nucleotide has 3 parts to it: a phosphate group, a sugar (ribose in RNA and deoxyribose in DNA), and a base (Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine or Uracil-Thymine is found only in DNA and Uracil is found only in RNA, but the other 3 bases may be found in either.).NA is built of billions of subunits called nucleotides.  Nucleotides are organic compounds that are made up of a nitrogenous  base, a sugar, and a phosphate group.