What are the characteristics and properties of RNA?

Many. It might be easiest to use a comparison. RNA is ribonucleic acid, while DNA is deoxyribonucleic acid. So DNA and RNA are, on the surface, very similar. While DNA uses the bases adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanidine (G) and thymine (T), RNA uses the uracil (U) base instead of the thymine. read more

The characteristic features of ribonucleic acid (RNA) are as follows: Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is another nucleic acid type. Like deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA), this is a polynucleotide but several differences are found in their structure. read more

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Few RNAs possess the characteristics of an enzyme and are called as ribozymes. The process of formation of rRNA is complex involving several steps before the final product of mature rRNA. In prokaryotes, the RNA polymerase mediated transcription of rRNA genes results in the formation of pre-rRNA. read more