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Messenger rna

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  1. 1
    RNA that encodes and carries information from DNA during transcription to sites of protein synthesis to undergo translation in order to yield a protein. countable, uncountable

    "In the past, RNA did not get this kind of respect. The central dogma of biology has been that DNA makes messenger RNA, messenger RNA makes proteins, and proteins do everything else that needs to be done in a living cell."

  2. 2
    the template for protein synthesis; the form of RNA that carries information from DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome sites of protein synthesis in the cell wordnet

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