State three differences between the structure of DNA and the structure of RNA

When comparing the structure of DNA and RNA (draw structure), DNA is double stranded whilst RNA is single stranded. Lets now discuss the molecular structure of DNA and RNA. DNA consists of nitrogen bases A, T, C and G whilst RNA is composed of A, G, C and U bases therefore when comparing DNA and RNA, RNA has a uracil base whilst DNA has thymine bases. On a simpler note, when looking at the acronyms DNA and RNA, DNA stands for deoxyribo-nucleic-acid whilst RNA stands for ribo-nucleic-acid indicating that DNA has a deoxy group that isn't present in RNA. Another example of a difference between the two is that DNA tends to be longer with being thousands of bases long whilst RNA tends to have shorter sequences of approximately 50-500 bases.

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