DNA and RNA differ in their sugars and purine base components.

True

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False

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Solution

The correct option is A True
DNA consists of deoxyribose sugar while RNA consists of simple ribose sugar also in DNA the pyrimidine thymine is present while in RNA uracil is found does DNA and RNA differ in their sugar and pyrimidine base components.
So, the given statement is true.

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Purines are the same in both DNA and RNA.

List-I	List-II
a. Nucleoside	$1$ . Deeply stained body containing rRNA
b. Nucleotide	$2$ . Portion of a DNA or RNA composed of one deoxyribose(in DNA) or ribose(in RNA) plus a purine or a pyramidine
c. Nucleolus	$3$ . Short disk-shaped cylinders composed of nucleoproteins and spaced at roughly $100$ A intervals on chromosomes
d. Nucleosome	$4$ . Portion of DNA or RNA composed of a purine or pyramidine base, a deoxyribose (in DNA) or a ribose (in RNA) and phosphoric acid

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