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RNA stands for Ribo-nucleic acid, or a nucleic acid with the sugar ribose as the base. DNA stand for deoxyribo-nucleic acid, or a nucleic acid with the sugar deoxyribose as the base. Both are composed of bound nucleotides that form a long, double helical strand. The individual nucleotide is made up of a phosphate-sugar (ribose or deoxyribose) backbone, and a nucelotide (either adenine, cytosine, guanine or thymine - note that uracil exists in the place of thymine in RNA molecules). The nucelotides bind the 2 strands together, while the phosphate-sugar backbone binds the multiple nucleotides together.

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