What Nucleotides Make up Rna

A five-carbon ribose sugar.A phosphate molecule.One of four nitrogenous bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, or uracil.

What are the 4 types of nucleotides in RNA?

The four types of nucleotides contain four types of nitrogenous bases. Adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine are nitrogenous bases present in DNA and uracil instead of thymine in RNA. Adenylic acid, guanylic acid, thymidylic acid, uridylic acid and cytidylic acid are nucleotides.

What is RNA made up of?

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a molecule similar to DNA. Unlike DNA, RNA is single-stranded. An RNA strand has a backbone made of alternating sugar (ribose) and phosphate groups. Attached to each sugar is one of four bases–adenine (A), uracil (U), cytosine (C), or guanine (G).

Maya Lin-Takahashi

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