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Classifying drugs as 'acting on nucleic acids' and 'acting on proteins' is a classification based on

  1. Apharmacological effect
  2. Bmolecular target
  3. Cchemical structure
  4. Ddrug action in terms of symptom relief

Answer: B

The groups are named by the type of biomolecule the drug binds. This is classification by molecular target.
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