Nucleic acid is one of the most basic living substances in all animals, plants and microorganisms.
It is divided into deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA), both of which are biomacromolecules polymerized by many nucleotide monomers. Simply put, a nucleic acid is a piece of code in a virus. It may be DNA or RNA, but for COVID-19, its code is RNA.