{"id":1132,"date":"2023-01-17T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/genetics-simplified\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2023-01-18T20:04:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T20:04:26","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-dna-and-rna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/genetics-simplified\/what-is-the-difference-between-dna-and-rna\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between DNA and RNA?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Jack Toor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The central dogma of biology hints that DNA is for long-term storage of information and RNA is for quickly making lots of copies of a gene when needed for expression. 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