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How are DNA and RNA different
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DNA contains information about ur genes.
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A few key differences:
DNA and RNA are abbreviations for
deoxyribonucleic acid
and
ribonucleic acid
respectively. This difference has to do with the fact that DNA contains a sugar called
deoxyribose
while RNA's sugar is simply
ribose
.
DNA has a
double-helical
structure while RNA is a single strand (resembling a single strand off a DNA's double helix). See the attached image for an illustration of this structure.
The bases of DNA are
guanine, cytosine, adenine,
and
thymine
. In RNA, by contrast, thymine is replaced by
uracil
.
Functionally, DNA is a kind of storage unit for genetic information. RNA
uses
this information to build proteins, copying it from the master copy contained in the DNA and converting it to a form the ribosomes can use.
(Image source: ThoughtCo)
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