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How are DNA and RNA alike?

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DNA and RNA are alike because they both contain nitrogen bases, they are both nucleotides, they both contain sugar, and a phosphate.

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How are rna and DNA alike?
RNA and DNA are essentially the same. The only differences (that I know of) are that in RNA thyamine is replaced with uracil, and RNA is single stranded while DNA is double stranded
What is DNA and RNA alike in?
DNA and RNA are both nucleic acids, and they both use the bases adenine, guanine, and cytosine. (DNA also has thymine while RNA has uracil) The major difference between these two is that DNA is...
Explain how DNA and RNA are alike?
Both are nucleic acids, and both contain information that is passed on in reproduction.
How is RNA nucleotide and DNA nucleotide alike?
DNA nucleotide has deoxyribose sugar (mean 5 carbon rings sugar which we took one hydrogen atom from the ring) and RNA nucleotide has ribose sugar(mean 5 carbon sugar).
What are 5 ways that RNA and DNA are alike?
well one is they both are ribo nucleic acid