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    Ribonucleic Acid

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    RNA is a nucleic acid that, along with DNA, lipids, carbohydrates and proteins, is essential for all life. Like DNA, RNA is composed of nucleotides that encode genetic information. Messenger RNA carries the genetic code from DNA to direct protein synthesis, and some viruses use RNA instead of DNA. RNA plays an active role in cells through catalysis, gene expression control, and sensing and communicating cellular signals, including by transferring amino acids to ribosomes for protein assembly. The chemical structure of RNA is similar to DNA but contains ribose instead of deoxyribose and uracil instead of thymine, and RNA is typically single-stranded and adopts complex 3D structures.

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    RNA is a nucleic acid that, along with DNA, lipids, carbohydrates and proteins, is essential for all life. Like DNA, RNA is composed of nucleotides that encode genetic information. Messenger RNA carries the genetic code from DNA to direct protein synthesis, and some viruses use RNA instead of DNA. RNA plays an active role in cells through catalysis, gene expression control, and sensing and communicating cellular signals, including by transferring amino acids to ribosomes for protein assembly. The chemical structure of RNA is similar to DNA but contains ribose instead of deoxyribose and uracil instead of thymine, and RNA is typically single-stranded and adopts complex 3D structures.

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    RNA is a nucleic acid that, along with DNA, lipids, carbohydrates and proteins, is essential for all life. Like DNA, RNA is composed of nucleotides that encode genetic information. Messenger RNA carries the genetic code from DNA to direct protein synthesis, and some viruses use RNA instead of DNA. RNA plays an active role in cells through catalysis, gene expression control, and sensing and communicating cellular signals, including by transferring amino acids to ribosomes for protein assembly. The chemical structure of RNA is similar to DNA but contains ribose instead of deoxyribose and uracil instead of thymine, and RNA is typically single-stranded and adopts complex 3D structures.

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    Ribonucleic Acid

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    Soumo Pathak
    RNA is a nucleic acid that, along with DNA, lipids, carbohydrates and proteins, is essential for all life. Like DNA, RNA is composed of nucleotides that encode genetic information. Messenger RNA carries the genetic code from DNA to direct protein synthesis, and some viruses use RNA instead of DNA. RNA plays an active role in cells through catalysis, gene expression control, and sensing and communicating cellular signals, including by transferring amino acids to ribosomes for protein assembly. The chemical structure of RNA is similar to DNA but contains ribose instead of deoxyribose and uracil instead of thymine, and RNA is typically single-stranded and adopts complex 3D structures.

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    Ribonucleic acid /rab.njukle.

    k sd/, or RNA, is part of a group of molecules known as the nucleic acids, which are one of the four majormacromolecules (along with lipids, carbohydrates and proteins) essential for all known forms of life. Like DNA, RNA is made up of a long chain of components called nucleotides. Each nucleotide consists of a nucleobase, a ribose sugar, and a phosphate group. The sequence of nucleotides allows RNA to encode genetic information. All cellular organisms use messenger RNA (mRNA) to carry the genetic information that directs the synthesis of proteins. In addition, many viruses use RNA instead of DNA as their genetic material. Some RNA molecules play an active role in cells by catalyzing biological reactions, controlling gene expression, or sensing and communicating responses to cellular signals. One of these active processes is protein synthesis, a universal function whereby mRNA molecules direct the assembly of proteins on ribosomes. This process uses transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules to deliver amino acids to the ribosome, where ribosomal RNA (rRNA) links amino acids together to form proteins. The chemical structure of RNA is very similar to that of DNA, with two differences: (a) RNA contains the sugar ribose, while DNA contains the slightly different sugar deoxyribose (a type of ribose that lacks one oxygen atom), and (b) RNA has the nucleobase uracil while DNA contains thymine. Unlike DNA, most RNA molecules are single-stranded and can adopt very complex three-dimensional structures.

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