- Institution/s: Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Saarbrücken, Universidad de Valladolid, Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 31
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Diana MOŢOC, María Jesús PALAO MARTÍNEZ, Marta VALDENEBRO ARENAS, Rosario HERRERO, Verónica ARNÁIZ UZQUIZA
- Creation / modification date: 01-02-2014
- Term: ribonucleic acid (RNA)
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: One of the two types of nucleic acid –the other being deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)- that contains sugar ribose, cytosine, purine bases and uracil; and is found mainly in the nucleolus (a structure within the nucleus), and the cytoplasm, there being very little in the chromosomes.
- Context: […] the macromolecular complexes responsible for the synthesis of RNA (RNA polymerase) and protein (ribosome) are each assemblies of multiple subunits.
- Expression: Messenger-RNA (mRNA), transfer-RNA (tRNA), template-RNA, soluble-RNA, RNA synthesis, RNA-directed, RNA interference, RNA splicing, RNA polymerase, short-interfering RNAs (siRNAs), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA
- Sources:
- Term: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition (p.17)
- Definition: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition (p.17)
- Context: WATSON, J.D., BAKER, T.A., BELL, S.P., GANN, A., LEVINE, M. and LOSICK, R. (2004) Molecular Biology of the Gene, 5th Ed., Pearson: San Francisco (p. 82)
- Expression: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition (p.17)
- Images:
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