the backbone of RNA contains ribose.
Differences include that RNA uses ribose as a sugar and DNA uses deoxyribose, and DNA uses the base thymine while RNA uses uracil.
Chemically RNA and DNA only differ by a single oxygen atom in each nucleotide. Specifically the sugar group in an RNA nucleotide is the sugar ribose, wherease the sugar group in DNA is deoxyribose. Wikipedia has a nice image showing this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nucleotides_1.svg Structurally RNA and DNA are also different. DNA exists almost exclusively in a double stranded helix. RNA is typically thought of a single chain that has a far more chaotic structure with the RNA folding back onto itself creating small helical regions where possible. DNA nucleotides contain a different sugar than RNA nucleotides.
RNA has uracil; DNA has thymine (5-methyl uracil). The other difference (and the reason for the difference in the names) is that the sugar in RNA is ribose, but in DNA it is 2-deoxyribose.
Generally the DNA molecule is double stranded to RNA's single strand. The RNA molecule uses uracil as a base while the DNA molecule uses thymine. RNA has catabolic properties that allow it to act in things such a ribosomes and tRNA. DNA is just a carrier of the genetic information.
The term double helix refers to the structure formed by double-stranded molecules of nucleic acids. Only DNA forms a double helix because RNA is only single-stranded.
RNA is single stranded,Pentose sugar is Ribose DNA has deoxyribose,Thymine of DNA is replaced by Uracil of RNA.
thymine with uracil
RNA
DNA is double stranded whereas RNA is single stranded . They are different in their functioning as well .
The base "uracil" is not found in the structure of DNA, but rather in RNA, as uracil replaces thymine in RNA.
Both DNA and RNA contain a sugar phosphate group as the backbone to their structure. In DNA the sugar is deoxyribose, where as in RNA it is just ribose.
Yes. It is either DNA or RNA.
Rna dna
pentose(ribose for RNA; deoxyribose for DNA), nitrogen base(AUGC for RNA; ATGC for DNA) and phosphate.
Differences include that RNA uses ribose as a sugar and DNA uses deoxyribose, and DNA uses the base thymine while RNA uses uracil.
Chemically RNA and DNA only differ by a single oxygen atom in each nucleotide. Specifically the sugar group in an RNA nucleotide is the sugar ribose, wherease the sugar group in DNA is deoxyribose. Wikipedia has a nice image showing this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nucleotides_1.svg Structurally RNA and DNA are also different. DNA exists almost exclusively in a double stranded helix. RNA is typically thought of a single chain that has a far more chaotic structure with the RNA folding back onto itself creating small helical regions where possible. DNA nucleotides contain a different sugar than RNA nucleotides.
A Ribose sugar as 'opposed to' a 2'- deoxy - Ribose sugar.