A) having similar sugars
B) having similar pyrimidine bases
C) being capable to replicate
D) being polymers of nucleotides
Correct Answer: D
Solution :
| DNA composition | RNA composition |
| (i) Deoxyribose sugar | Ribose sugar |
| (ii) Adenine, guanine (purine) and cytosine, thymine (pyrimidine), nitrogenous bases. | Adenine, guanine (purine) and uracil and cytosine (pyrimidine) nitrogenous bases. |
| (iii) Phosphate molecules. | Phosphate molecules. |
| (iv) It is polymer of nucleotides. | It is also polymer of nucleotides. |
| (v) It is capable to replicate in all cases because it functions as heredity material. | It is formed from DNA by the process of transcription only in few cases (RNA viruses) it functions as heredity material as in viruses. |
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