Asingle stranded nucleic acid that plays a role in protein synthesis. this holds an organisms hereditary information. this bonds to thymine (t) in dna. this is the structure of dna as first published by james watson and francis crick in 1953. this bonds to cytosine (c) in dna. this bonds to adenine (a) in dna. this bonds to guanine (g) in dna. this is a 5-carbon sugar which is a structural component of rna, it differs from deoxyribose of dna by only one group. this is the nitrogenous base only found in rna. this is the sugar found in the side chains of dna.