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Neet Cracky: The major differences between DNA and RNA

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Neet Cracky  I know that Google is flooded with many results for this query about the differences between DNA and RNA but I would like to shortlist my points and give you the aptest information required for board exams and other competitive exams. Let's get started with the topic. Let's start with the basics we know that DNA is abbreviated as D eoxy R ibo N ucleic acid and RNA is abbreviated as R ibo N ucleic A cid. You might have wondered why do we study DNA and RNA which are too small to be seen by the naked eye. DNA was first identified by Friedrich Miescher in the late 1860s but in the 1950s DNA was discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick .  Friedrich Miescher a Swiss physician and biologist  discovered RNA in 1868. He named nucleic acid as ' Nuclein '.He was the first scientist to isolate Nucleic acid. In 1889 a scientist known as Altman named nuclein to nucleic acid. The length of all the DNA  present in the human body is 600 trillion...