Question

fill in the blanks to complete the following statements describing the structure of dna and rna: the nucleotides in dna contain the 5 - carbon sugar ________; the nucleotides in rna contain the sugar ______. there are four different types of bases in dna: a = ______, t = ______, g = ______, and c = ______. in rna, the base ________ replaces the base thymine.

Explanation:

DNA nucleotides have deoxyribose sugar and bases adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), cytosine (C). RNA nucleotides have ribose sugar and uracil (U) replaces thymine.

Answer:

The nucleotides in DNA contain the 5 - carbon sugar deoxyribose; the nucleotides in RNA contain the sugar ribose. There are four different types of bases in DNA: A = adenine, T = thymine, G = guanine, and C = cytosine. In RNA, the base uracil replaces the base thymine.