CORRESPONDENCEQuantitation of Ribonucleotides from Base-Hydrolyzed RNA Using Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Sir: Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a biopolymer consisting of four different ribonucleosides connected by phosphate units through 3-5' linkages on the ribose rings. Specificity of RNA is derived by the sequence of the four bases, of which two are purines (adenine [A] and guanine [G]) and two are pyrimidines (cytosine [C] and uracil [U]). Unlike in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a double-stranded biopolymer, pairing between purine and pyrimidine bases need not occur in RNA. Consequently, there is much interest in determining the ratio of all four "major" bases in different kinds of RNA, as well as the amount of modified bases (e.g. ribothymidine and pseudouridine) which may constitute up to 15% of tRNA. Additional interest is centered on the determination of the quantity of radiolabel incorporated into RNA and free nu-