What are the building blocks of RNA called and what do they look like?
2007-04-21 09:52:51 · 0 answers · asked by Mary M 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
RNA is made of RNA nucleotides.
Each nucleotide has a sugar (ribose), a phosphate, and a nitrogen base (adenine, uracil, cytosine, or guanine). The overall shape of a nucleotide is kind of like an "L".
2007-04-21 10:05:11 · answer #1 · answered by ecolink 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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What are the building blocks of RNA called and what do they look like?
What are the building blocks of RNA called and what do they look like?
2015-08-12 06:10:32 · answer #2 · answered by Tanhya 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ribonucleotides. It consists of 3 parts - heterocyclic base, a sugar, and one or more phosphate groups. Have a look at the link below to see how does it look like.
If it is DNA, then the building blocks are called deoxyribonucleotides.
Both ribonucleotide and deoxyribonucleotides are commonly known as nucleotides.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide
2007-04-21 10:09:22 · answer #3 · answered by Yarra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are called ribonucleotides. There are four of them (uridine, cytidine, guanosine and adenosine). Each ribonucleotide consists of a phosphate group, a ribose sugar, and a nitrogenous base (the base is what is different in the 4 nucleotides). They actually look a lot like ATP (used for energy in the cell) execpt for there are two fewer phosphate groups.
2007-04-21 10:06:23 · answer #4 · answered by anon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
adenine, uracil, cytosine, & guanine, similar to DNA, but uracil replaces the thymine.
2007-04-25 07:38:22 · answer #5 · answered by Vicky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They look like teeny tiny Legos.
2007-04-21 10:01:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋