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The bases of RNA are the same as those of DNA except that RNA has _______.

uracil instead of adenine

cytosine instead of quanine

uracil instead of thymine

cysteine instead of cytosine

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RNA has Uracil instead of Thymine. All the other three bases also occurs in RNA, adenine, guanine and cytosine. Therefore a ATA DNA codon will be transcript to UAU by RNA. Both Thymine and Uracil have the same role in however have minor chemical differences.
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