What is the difference between DNA and RNA?

Answer 1

There are many differences between RNA and DNA.
The main structural difference is that the Carbon at position two is missing an oxygen in DNA (DEOXYribonucleic acid) while RNA has an oxygen there.
Also, RNA is often single-stranded, but not always.
RNA has multiple uses, outside of the nucleus, and is involved in special types of proteins and other important biological systems. DNA is mostly just a gene library, and it even contains a lot of useless information.

Also, RNA polymerization can occur without a primer, whereas DNA polymerase cannot start a new strand from scratch

Answer 2

DNA is double-stranded

RNA is single stranded

All the T's in DNA are U's in RNA.

Answer 3

DNA - dioxyribose nucleic acid, is basically our "blueprint" while RNA - ribose nucleic acid, is the "messanger" to the cells to tell them what the "blueprint" is. It's smaller than DNA, which is what allows it to travel and transfer messages to the cells to make the type of proteins the DNA segment it's transferring codes for.

Answer 4

DNA has 2 strands, the sugar deoxyribose, and the bases adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.

RNA has 1 strand, the sugar ribose, and the bases adenine, guanine, cytosine, and URACIL.