Question

Which of these is a difference between DNA and RNA?

DNA is found in the nucleus; RNA is never found in the nucleus.
DNA consists of five different nucleotides; RNA consists of four different nucleotides.
RNA is double-stranded; DNA is single-stranded.
DNA contains thymine; RNA contains uracil.
In DNA, adenine pairs with guanine; in RNA, adenine pairs with thymine.

Answer 1

Like DNA, RNA is made up of nucleotides. There are two differences that distinguish DNA from RNA: (a) RNA contains the sugar ribose, while DNA contains the slightly different sugar deoxyribose (a type of ribose that lacks one oxygen atom), and (b) RNA has the nucleobase uracil while DNA contains thymine.