similarities between DNA and RNA?
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1) both are nucleotide polymers\n2) contain cytosine, guanine and adenine\n3) made up of a sugar-phosphate backbone with nitrogenous bases\n4) code for biologically important information\n5) are stable\n6) capable of precise replication\n7) capable of incorporating mutations
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Do you mean the complementary DNA sequence?  It's CGTTAGAC.\n\nThe complementary RNA sequence is CGUUAGAC.  There's no thyamine in RNA - it has uracil instead.\n\nUpdate: Wow Leeor, glad you cleared that up.  Try looking at the previous answers next time.
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You're going to have to be more specific.\n\nThere's mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA if you're answering questions from a biology textbook and are too lazy to learn the answer yourself.\n\nmRNA = messenger RNA\ntRNA = transcriptional RNA\nrRNA = ribosomal RNA\n\nThere's also miRNA and siRNA, which are genetic regulator molecules and could thus be considered not "true" RNA, but they're clearly labeled RNA.
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RNA\nRibonucleic acid (RNA) is a nucleic acid polymer consisting of nucleotide monomers. RNA nucleotides contain ribose rings and uracil unlike deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which contains deoxyribose and thymine. It is transcribed (synthesized) from DNA by enzymes called RNA polymerases and further processed by other enzymes. RNA serves as the template for translation of genes into proteins, transferring amino acids to the ribosome to form proteins, and also translating the transcript into proteins.\n\nComparison with DNA\nUnlike DNA, RNA is almost always a single-stranded molecule and has a much shorter chain of nucleotides. RNA contains ribose, rather than the deoxyribose found in DNA (there is a hydroxyl group attached to the pentose ring in the 2' position whereas RNA has two hydroxyl groups). These hydroxyl groups make RNA less stable than DNA because it is more prone to hydrolysis. Several types of RNA (tRNA, rRNA) contain a great deal of secondary structure, which help promote stability.\n\nLike DNA, most biologically active RNAs including tRNA, rRNA, snRNAs and other non-coding RNAs (such as the SRP RNAs) are extensively base paired to form double stranded helices. Structural analysis of these RNAs have revealed that they are not, "single-stranded" but rather highly structured. Unlike DNA, this structure is not just limited to long double-stranded helices but rather collections of short helices packed together into structures akin to proteins. In this fashion, RNAs can achieve chemical catalysis, like enzymes. For instance, determination of the structure of the ribosome in 2000 revealed that the active site of this enzyme that catalyzes peptide bond formation is composed entirely of RNA.\n\nand\n\nDeoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions for the biological development of a cellular form of life or a virus. All known cellular life and some viruses have DNAs. DNA is a long polymer of nucleotides (a polynucleotide) that encodes the sequence of amino acid residues in proteins, using the genetic code.\n\nYou could get more information from the 2 links below...
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the bases in DNA and RNA are nitrogenous bases. they can either be pyrimidines(have 1 ring in their structure) and purines(have 2 rings in their structure).\n\nDNA\nadenine - purine\nthymine - pyrimidines\ncytosine - pyrimidines\nguanine- purines\n\nRNA\nadenine - purine\nuracil - pyrimidine\ngaunine - purine\ncytosine - pyrimidine\n\nin dna and rna the bases are complementary and form hydrogen bonds between them. the pairs are adenine and thymine in dna and in rna adenine and uracil, and in both gaunine and cytosine.\nIt is these bases that form the genetic code.
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The statement is true. If you assume that takeing dna to rna is the same language, then that would be transcribing, while rna to prtien is a different language, that is translating
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DNA is a double helix, has deoxyribose sugar, and the nitrogen base thymine.\n\nRNA is a single strand, has ribose sugar, and the nitrogen base uracil (instead of thymine).
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http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/Michael.Gregory/files/Bio%20101/Bio%20101%20Lectures/DNA/dna.htm
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DNA is a substance just like RNA and protein are. In a cell's nucleus DNA is "transcribed" into RNA (another substance), RNA (not DNA) is then "translated" into protein.
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Nucleotide = nitrogen base (purine or pyrimidine) + phosphate group + pentose sugar (ribose or deoxyribose)\nThey are units of DNA.\nNucleoside= nitrogen base(purine or pyrimidine)+ pentose sugar(ribose or deoxyribose)\nThey are units of RNA.\nHope u got it!
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Genetic Information\nDNA-RNA -Protien synthesis - Amino acid
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There are both structural and functional differences between DNA and RNA. \nThe structure of the nucleotids that form each molecule is different (DNA has desoxyribose and RNA has 'normal' ribose); and while DNA is formed by the combination of the nucleotids Adenine, Timine, Citosine and Guanine, RNA has Adenine, Citosine, Guanine, but Uracil instead of Timine.\n\nThey also differ in their 3-D structure: DNA is a double strand forming a helix, and RNA is single stranded, with different shapes according to the types of RNA. \n\nThat's another difference: there are 3 distinct types of RNA (transfer RNA or RNAt, ribosomic RNA or RNAr, and messenger RNA or RNAm). These three types have different functions and are found in different parts of the cell; they're smaller molecules that can go outside the cell nucleus, whereas the large DNA molecule stays within the nucleus and has a single function: provide and perpetuate the genetic information of the individual.
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Although sometimes called "the molecule of heredity", DNA macromolecules as people typically think of them are not single molecules. Rather, they are pairs of molecules, which entwine like vines to form a double helix (see the illustration at the right).\n\nEach vine-like molecule is a strand of DNA: a chemically linked chain of nucleotides, each of which consists of a sugar (deoxyribose), a phosphate and one of five kinds of nucleobases ("bases"). Because DNA strands are composed of these nucleotide subunits, they are polymers.\n\nThe diversity of the bases means that there are five kinds of nucleotides, which are commonly referred to by the identity of their bases. These are adenine (A), thymine (T), uracil (U), cytosine (C), and guanine (G). U is rarely found in DNA except as a result of chemical degradation of C, but in some viruses, notably PBS1 phage DNA, U completely replaces the usual T in its DNA. Similarly, RNA usually contains U in place of T, but in certain RNAs such as transfer RNA, T is always found in some positions. Thus, the only true difference between DNA and RNA is the sugar, 2-deoxyribose in DNA and ribose in RNA.\n\nIn a DNA double helix, two polynucleotide strands can associate through the hydrophobic effect and pi stacking. Specificity of which strands stay associated is determined by complementary pairing. Each base forms hydrogen bonds readily to only one other -- A to T and C to G -- so that the identity of the base on one strand dictates the strength of the association; the more complementary bases exist, the stronger and longer-lasting the association.\n\nThe cell's machinery is capable of melting or disassociating a DNA double helix, and using each DNA strand as a template for synthesizing a new strand which is nearly identical to the previous strand. Errors that occur in the synthesis are known as mutations. The process known as PCR (polymerase chain reaction) mimics this process in vitro in a nonliving system.\n\nBecause pairing causes the nucleotide bases to face the helical axis, the sugar and phosphate groups of the nucleotides run along the outside; the two chains they form are sometimes called the "backbones" of the helix. In fact, it is chemical bonds between the phosphates and the sugars that link one nucleotide to the next in the DNA strand.
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In DNA deoxyribose-phosphate backbone and nitrogenous bases.  The bases of DNA are adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine.  In RNA ribose-phosphate backbone and nitrogenous bases are adenine, cytosine, guanine and uracil.  A deoxyribose-phosphate backbone is essentially a pentonse sugar (5 carbons) linked to a phosphate group in a 5' to 3' direction.  The bases are connected to the 1' end of the ribose groups. Pairing occurs by hydrogen bonding between A+T, A+U, and G+C between two strands.
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The phosphate in the backbone is the same. The difference (other than uracil in RNA and thyamine in DNA) is the sugar group. RNA has ribose, while DNA has deoxyribose. Deoxyribose has one less hydroxyl group.
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DNA=Deoxy Ribon Nucleic Acid.\n\nits the material in a nuclei i n a nucleus, in acell that stores the cells information.\n\n~LG23~
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AAUCGGACU\n\nBecause:\nG matches with C\nA matches with U\nBut when it's a T in DNA, it'll be an A in RNA. If it's an A in DNA, it'll be a U in RNA. That's the most confusing part about transcription.