why dna has no uricel while rna had?

Answer Posted / khavashi madhuri

Because uracil can base pair with almost any other base,
including itself but in thymine the methyl group restricts
uracil to pairing only with adenine.This reduces the rate
of mismatches and thus mutation in the DNA.

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