Differences between DNA and RNA?

One of the most frequently asked questions about nucleic acids is: What is the main difference between DNA and RNA and chemically how they both differ from each other? Nucleic Acids are the organic compounds found in the chromosomes of living cells and in viruses. These are mainly two types of nucleic acids, which differ slightly in their chemical composition.

Deoxyribonucleic acid (abbreviated DNA) ordinarily occurs only in the cell nucleus, which have nucleotides A, T, G, C, whereas in Ribonucleic acid (abbreviated RNA) is found both in the nucleus and in the cytoplasm and consists of A, U, G, C nucleotides. (where Thymine is replaced by Uracil in RNA). Thus, DNA and its chemical cousin RNA are unique in their ability to encode information and to pass it on through heredity.

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