Ribonucleic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to ribonucleic acid (RNA) or its derivatives not-comparable

Example

More examples

"Deoxyribonucleic acid is DNA; ribonucleic acid is RNA."

Etymology

From ribose + nucleic.

Related phrases

ribosomal ribonucleic acidribonucleic acid

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