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Ribonucleic acid. One of the two types of nucleic acids found in all cells. The other is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). RNA transmits genetic information from DNA to proteins produced by the cell.
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Ribonucleic acid. An organic acid composed of repeating nucleotide units of adenine, guanine, cytosine and uracil, whose ribose components are linked by phospho-diester bonds. The information-carrying material in some viruses. ...
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| RNase |
Ribonuclease. A group of enzymes that catalyse the cleavage of nucleotides in RNA.
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1. A nucleic acid, found mostly in the cytoplasm-rather than the nucleus-of cells. RNA, like the structurally similar DNA, is a chain made up of subunits called nucleotides. RNA plays several roles in determining the synthesis of proteins. Messenger RNA replicates the DNA code for a protein and moves to sites in the cell called ribosomes. There, the much shorter transfer RNA (tRNA) assembles amino acids to form the protein specified by the messenger RNA. ...
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| RNA polymerase |
An enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of RNA molecules from a DNA template in a process called trascription.
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