RNA

• Structure of RNA (4)

  1. RNA is single stranded.

  2. It is composed of nucleotides containing ribose sugar, phosphate and base.

  3. and one of four bases are uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.

  4. tRNA folds due to complementary base pairing.

  5. A tRNA molecule has an anticodon an exposed triplet of bases at one end and an attachment for a specific amino acid at the other end.

  6. Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and protein forms the ribosome.