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What is responsible for the increased stability of dna compared to rna?.

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What is responsible for the increased stability of DNA compared to RNA? DNA is a more stable molecule than RNA because it lacks a hydroxyl group on the 2' carbon and is therefore more resistant to cleavage, and because the two sugar-phosphate backbones are held together by many hydrogen bonds between nitrogenous bases

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