Q. What is found in RNA and not DNA?
RNA is very similar to DNA, but differs in a few important structural details: RNA is single stranded, while DNA is double stranded. Also, RNA nucleotides contain ribose sugars while DNA contains deoxyribose and RNA uses predominantly uracil instead of thymine present in DNA.
Q. What are the differences between RNA and DNA?
There are two differences that distinguish DNA from RNA: (a) RNA contains the sugar ribose, while DNA contains the slightly different sugar deoxyribose (a type of ribose that lacks one oxygen atom), and (b) RNA has the nucleobase uracil while DNA contains thymine.
Q. What are the two chemical structures found in RNA but not DNA?
The bases adenine, guanine, and cytosine are found in both DNA and RNA; thymine is found only in DNA, and uracil is found only in RNA.
Q. What can only be found in RNA?
RNA is transcribed with only four bases (adenine, cytosine, guanine and uracil), but these bases and attached sugars can be modified in numerous ways as the RNAs mature.
Q. What are the 3 RNA types?
Of the many types of RNA, the three most well-known and most commonly studied are messenger RNA (mRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA), and ribosomal RNA (rRNA), which are present in all organisms.
Q. What is RNA function?
The central dogma of molecular biology suggests that the primary role of RNA is to convert the information stored in DNA into proteins.
Q. What is RNA in the medical field?
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Q. Why is DNA called a blueprint?
DNA is called the blueprint of life because it contains the instructions needed for an organism to grow, develop, survive and reproduce. DNA does this by controlling protein synthesis.
Q. Is DNA a blueprint?
DNA is called the blueprint of life because it is the instruction manual to create, grow, function and reproduce life on Earth similar to a blueprint of a house.
Q. Who can read the blueprint of DNA?
Answer: DNA is read by the enzyme RNA polymerase. This enzyme attaches itself to the DNA strand slightly in front of a gene.
Q. Which sugar is present in a DNA backbone?
deoxyribose
Q. Where is the nitrogenous base in DNA?
Nitrogenous bases present in the DNA can be grouped into two categories: purines (Adenine (A) and Guanine (G)), and pyrimidine (Cytosine (C) and Thymine (T)). These nitrogenous bases are attached to C1′ of deoxyribose through a glycosidic bond.
Q. Is sulfur a DNA?
They also knew that proteins contain sulfur atoms but no phosphorus, while DNA contains a great deal of phosphorus and no sulfur.
Q. Is carbon a DNA?
A single basic unit or “building block” of DNA consists of a sugar , a phosphate group and a base. Sugars are rings of carbon and oxygen atoms. The sugar in DNA has 5 carbon atoms (labelled 1′ – 5′), and is called deoxy-ribose (hence the “Deoxy-ribo” in DNA).
