ACTIVITY 1

1. How does the structure of DNA and RNA differ?

 Two strands, arranged in a double helix, constitute DNA. These
strands are made up of nucleotides called subunits. A phosphate, a 5-
carbon sugar molecule and a nitrogenous base are contained in each
nucleotide while RNA has just one strand, but is made up of
nucleotides, like DNA. Strands of RNA are thinner than strands of
DNA. A secondary double helix arrangement often shapes RNA, but
only continuously.
Adenine ('A'), Thymine ('T'), Guanine ('G') and Cytosine ('C') are
the basics in DNA while the RNA shares DNA with Adenine ('A'),
Guanine ('G') and Cytosine ('C'), but contains thymine rather than
uracil ('U').
It is also said that DNA is much longer than the RNA that it will
consists a large molecule of RNA but it will only be a few thousand
base pairs long.