What’s the main difference between DNA and RNA?
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Well, RNA is just one spiral instead of a double helix, and is composed of slightly different amines that analog similarly to the ones in DNA (CGAU vs CGAT). RNA contains Uracil rather than Thymine.
The other major difference is that there’s one more oxygen molecule bonded into a hydroxyl group (a hydrogen molecule stuck to an oxygen molecule) in ribose than there is in deoxyribose (hence de-oxy ribose) and ribose is the R in RNA while deoxyribose is the D in DNA.
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