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DNA and RNA are very similar; however, RNA does not contain adenine and thymine. Question 4 options: True False

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False. RNA has four different bases, adenine, guanine, cytosine and uracil. The first three of these are also found in DNA, but when it comes to RNA, there is no thymine, it is in fact replaced by uracil as the base to compliment adenine. So RNA has adenine, but not thymine.
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