Which statement best explains the chemical differences between DNA and RNA? (a) DNA has two different sugars
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Which statement best explains the chemical differences between DNA and RNA?
(a) DNA has two different sugars in its sugar–phosphate backbone, but RNA only has one.
(b) Thymine is one of the DNA bases, whereas RNA’s corresponding base is thymine minus a methyl group.
(c) The RNA sugar–phosphate backbone contains fewer oxygen atoms than DNA’s backbone.
(d) DNA forms double helices but RNA cannot.
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Chemistry The Central Science
ISBN: 9780321910417
13th Edition
Authors: Theodore E. Brown, H. Eugene LeMay, Bruce E. Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward, Matthew E. Stoltzfus
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