Which of the following is not a constituent of DNA?

Assessment: WAEC SSCE - Biology - 1988 (Objective) Subject: Biology

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Which of the following is not a constituent of DNA?
Answer Details
Uracil is not a constituent of DNA. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is made up of four basic building blocks, called nucleotides, which consist of a phosphate group, a sugar molecule called deoxyribose, and a nitrogenous base. The four nitrogenous bases found in DNA are adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). Uracil is a nitrogenous base that is found in RNA (ribonucleic acid), which is a related molecule to DNA but has a slightly different structure. RNA also contains a phosphate group and a sugar molecule (ribose) but instead of thymine, it contains uracil as one of its four nitrogenous bases.

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