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What is RNA?

RNA is similar to DNA: it consists of strands of four different chemical building blocks, or bases, attached to a chemical backbone. But unlike DNA, in which two strands coil around each other to make a double helix, RNA remains as a single strand. Like DNA, RNA has the bases A, C and G, but instead of thymine (T), it uses another base called uracil (U).

DNA is double stranded while RNA is single stranded.
DNA is double stranded while RNA is single stranded.

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