RNA
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
RNA/ɑːrenˈeɪ/
▶noun Biochemistry ribonucleic acid, a substance in living cells involved in the synthesis of proteins encoded by genes and in some viruses carrying genetic information instead of DNA.
'RNA' also found in these Oxford entries:
adenine
- anticodon
- antisense
- arenavirus
- chromatin
- codon
- complementary DNA
- coronavirus
- cytidine
- cytosine
- DNA virus
- enterovirus
- exon
- filovirus
- genetic code
- guanine
- guanosine
- intron
- map
- messenger RNA
- mRNA
- myxovirus
- nucleic acid
- paramyxovirus
- picornavirus
- polymerase
- purine
- pyrimidine
- retrovirus
- ribonucleic acid
- ribosome
- ribozyme
- RNase
- RNA virus
- rotavirus
- Rous sarcoma
- rRNA
- transcribe
- transcript
- transcriptase
- transfer RNA
- translate
- triplet code
- tRNA
- untranslated
- uracil
- uridine
