Part 5 – Ribonucleic Acid

Section A: What is RNA?

RNA is important in the direction of cellular activities. It’s also a link in the all important synthesis chain you see on your screen right now (DNA –> RNA –> Protein). RNA is needed to make each protein molecule in a cell and you now understand how important protein is for life.

You are about to learn how RNA is made from DNA. But before we get to that, we need to know what RNA is, and we can learn that by discussing the differences between RNA and DNA. Does anybody know?

I know, RNA has a ribose sugar whereas DNA has a deoxyribose sugar. DNA has the prefix deoxy because it has one less oxygen molecule on its ribose sugar…

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