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It is easier to say which componants are different as the two types of molecule are very similar. RNA uses ribose in the sugar-phosphate backbone rather than deoxyribose, as in DNA. And in RNA uracil (U) is used in place of (T) as a base. These are the two major differences. If you want a list of similarities then:

-both use a sugar phosphate backbone onto which bases are assembled

-Both use four bases to encode information (A,T,C,G - DNA) and(A,U,C,G- RNA)

-both use hydrogen bonding between bases to join sense and antisense strands (both sides of the ladder)

-all nucleotides (bases) used to make to both DNA and RNA have 3 phosphate groups attached to them before they are added to the growing chain.

struggling to think of many more as effectively RNA is a copy of DNA with a few minor differences!

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