For the following structural characteristic, decide if it is a characteristic of DNA, a characteristic of RNA, a characteristic of both DNA and RNA, or a characteristic of neither DNA nor RNA. It contains thymine as a base.
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It is a characteristic of DNA because in RNA thymine is replaced by Uracil.
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The characteristic is of DNA.
DNA and RNA both are genetic material which means they contain important information for expression in the form of genes.
The difference in the two genetic material is presence of deoxy ribose sugar and ribose sugar.
Another difference that occurs is in nitrogenous bases. DNA has nitrogenous bases namely adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine.
On the other hand, RNA has same nitrogenous bases except thymine. The thymine is replaced with uracil in RNA.
Hence, presence of thymine is characteristic of DNA and can be used for identification and differentiation between the two genetic materials.
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