The non-coding sections of DNA are removed prior to translation in a process called introns.
I think this might be the answer but I will keep looking if it is not.
In my understanding,
Water can be considered as either weak acid/alkali or neutral, which means it does ionize by itself, but not too much.
So the lack of active ions in water allows other molecules to freely ionize and bond with each other.
Dioxyeibose is the carbon 5 sugar in dna and ribose also a carbon 5 sugar in RNA