Uracil Forms a Complementary Pair with ____ in RNA and ____

question 89

Multiple Choice

Uracil forms a complementary pair with ____ in RNA and ____ in DNA.

• A) adenine; adenine
• B) adenine; thymine
• C) thymine; thymine
• D) thymine; adenine
• E) uracil; uracil

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Definitions:

D-Glucose

A naturally occurring form of glucose, a simple sugar, that is widely found in nature and is a primary energy source for living organisms.

Mutarotation

Mutarotation is the process of spontaneous change in the optical rotation because of the change in the equilibrium between two anomers of a sugar in solution.

Amygdalin

A naturally occurring compound found in the seeds of many fruits that releases cyanide when metabolized.

D-Aldohexoses

A type of simple sugar (monosaccharide) with six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group, where the hydroxyl group on the highest-numbered chiral carbon points to the right in the Fischer projection.