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  • 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: PASSARGE, Eberhard (2004). Taschenatlas der Genetik. 2., vollst. überarb. u. erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 421. BUSELMAIER, Werner (2012). Biologie für Mediziner. 12. neubearbeitete und erweiterte Aufl. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag,
    • Definition: PASSARGE, Eberhard (2004). Taschenatlas der Genetik. 2., vollst. überarb. u. erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 421.
    • Context: SCHAAF, Christian, ZSCHOCKE, Johannes (2013). Basiswissen Humangenetik. 2. Aufl. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 20.
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