BIOMOLECULES AND ENZYMES

BIOLOGY

NUCLEIC ACIDS

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Nitrogen bases for RNA:
A
Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Uracil
B
Adenine Guanine, Cytosine, and Sulfur
C
Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine
D
Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Phosphate
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -RNA consists of four nitrogenous bases : adenine, cytosine, uracil, and guanine. Uracil is a pyrimidine that is structurally similar to the thymine, another pyrimidine that is found in DNA. Like thymine, uracil can base-pair with adenine (Figure 2).

Detailed explanation-2: -Uracil is one of four nitrogenous bases found in the RNA molecule: uracil and cytosine (derived from pyrimidine) and adenine and guanine (derived from purine). Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) also contains each of these nitrogenous bases, except that thymine is substituted for uracil.

Detailed explanation-3: -Three of the four nitrogenous bases that make up RNA-adenine (A), cytosine (C), and guanine (G)-are also found in DNA. In RNA, however, a base called uracil (U) replaces thymine (T) as the complementary nucleotide to adenine (Figure 3).

Detailed explanation-4: -Two nitrogen-containing bases (or nucleotides) that pair together to form the structure of DNA. The four bases in DNA are adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T). These bases form specific pairs (A with T, and G with C).

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