dna deoxyribonucleic acid
RNA - ribonucleic acid
1. The difference between DNA and RNA. The composition of DNA includes deoxyribonucleotides, the composition of RNA - ribonucleotides.
2. Nitrogen bases in the DNA molecule - thymine, adenine, cytosine, guanine; instead of thymine, uracil is involved in RNA.
3.DNA is a matrix for transcription, it stores genetic information. RNA is involved in protein synthesis.
4. DNA has a double helix; RNA is single.
5. DNA is in the nucleus, plastids, mitochondria; RNA - is formed in the cytoplasm, in the ribosomes, in the nucleus, its own RNA is in plastids and mitochondria.d mitochondria.