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    DNA carries genetic code in living organisms and has a double helix structure formed by pairing of complementary bases. RNA is involved in protein synthesis and exists as a single strand, with ribose rather than deoxyribose. Both are made of nucleotides linked by phosphate groups.

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    DNA carries genetic code in living organisms and has a double helix structure formed by pairing of complementary bases. RNA is involved in protein synthesis and exists as a single strand, with ribose rather than deoxyribose. Both are made of nucleotides linked by phosphate groups.

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    DNA carries genetic code in living organisms and has a double helix structure formed by pairing of complementary bases. RNA is involved in protein synthesis and exists as a single strand, with ribose rather than deoxyribose. Both are made of nucleotides linked by phosphate groups.

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    DNA RNA
     DNA is a nucleic acid that carries the genetic code in all living organisms, this is the reason why the  RNA is another type of nucleic acid which is the main component of ribosomes,
    genetic codes said to be universal. which play an important role in protein synthesis.
    DNA Nucleotide Structure
     Pentose sugar: Deoxyribose Ribose
    RNA nucleotides
      Pentose sugar: Ribose
    Nitrogenous Bases
    ( Adenine, Cytosine ,Guanine, Thymine)  Nitrogenous Bases
     Phosphate group ( Adenine, Cytosine ,Guanine, Uracil)
    DNA STRUCTURE 

    Phosphate group
    DNA molecules are made up of two polynucleotide strands lying side by side, running in opposite
    directions the strands are said to be antiparallel RNA STRUCTURE
     Each DNA polynucleotide strand is made up of alternating deoxyribose sugars and phosphate groups  RNA forms a single-stranded polynucleotide with ribose as the pentose sugar in each
    bonded together to form the sugar-phosphate backbone nucleotide.
     DNA is a double helix made of two antiparallel strands of nucleotides linked by hydrogen bonding  The carbon atoms in nucleotides are numbered from the right in a clockwise
    between complementary base pairs.
     These hydrogen bonds always occur between the same pairs of bases: direction. This makes it easier to identify the bonds in the sugar-phosphate backbone
     The purine adenine (A) always pairs with the pyrimidine thymine (T) – two hydrogen of polynucleotides.
     The purine guanine (G) always pairs with the pyrimidine cytosine (C) – three hydrogen Condensation Reaction
     complementary base pairs allows DNA to be copied very precisely during DNA replication which in  RNA nucleotides are linked together by condensation reactions, during which a
    turn ensures that the genetic code is accurately copied and expressed in newly formed cells molecule of water is released.
    Diversity of DNA base sequences
     This forms a phosphodiester bond between the pentose sugar of one nucleotide and
     Despite the genetic code only containing four bases (A, T, C, G), they can combine to form a very
    diverse range of DNA base sequences in DNA molecules of different lengths the phosphate group of the next nucleotide
     This means that DNA has an almost limitless capacity for storing genetic information in living
    organisms
     One way in which this storage capacity can be measured is by the number of genes contained within
    the DNA of an organism
     Even the most simplistic forms of life may contain several thousand genes within their DNA

    Different types of RNA are found in the cells of living organisms:


     messenger RNA (mRNA), which is formed in the nucleus and transported to the
    ribosomes in the cytoplasm
     transfer RNA (tRNA), which is responsible for transporting amino acids to ribosomes
    during protein synthesis
     ribosomal RNA (rRNA), which forms part of ribosomes

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