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If you are looking at the following strand of repeating nucleotides:

AUCGCUGUAAGCGCCAAU
is it DNA or RNA and how can you tell?

If you are looking at the following strand of repeating nucleotides: AUCGCUGUAAGCGCCAAU-example-1

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A nucleotide is the basic building block of nucleic acids. RNA and DNA are polymers made of long chains of nucleotides. A nucleotide consists of a sugar molecule (either ribose in RNA or deoxyribose in DNA) attached to a phosphate group and a nitrogen-containing base. The bases used in DNA are adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T). In RNA, the base uracil (U) takes the place of thymine.

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