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  • adjective genetics Of or pertaining to ribonucleic acid (RNA) or its derivatives

Etymologies

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From ribose + nucleic

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Examples

  • Ochoa's enzyme produces ribonucleic acids from ribonucleotides having twice the ratio of phosphoric acid residues as that contained in ribonucleic acid.

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • In the late 1950s, Jacques Monod and François Jacob, working in Paris, Sydney Brenner and Matthew Meselson at Caltech, and Francis Crick in Cambridge, discovered that the genesis of proteins from genes requires an intermediary step—a molecule called ribonucleic acid, or RNA.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • In the late 1950s, Jacques Monod and François Jacob, working in Paris, Sydney Brenner and Matthew Meselson at Caltech, and Francis Crick in Cambridge, discovered that the genesis of proteins from genes requires an intermediary step—a molecule called ribonucleic acid, or RNA.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • In the late 1950s, Jacques Monod and François Jacob, working in Paris, Sydney Brenner and Matthew Meselson at Caltech, and Francis Crick in Cambridge, discovered that the genesis of proteins from genes requires an intermediary step—a molecule called ribonucleic acid, or RNA.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • The substructure of gene products known as ribonucleic acid, or RNA, is evaluated for all known genes in another type of microarray.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2008

  • The substructure of gene products known as ribonucleic acid, or RNA, is evaluated for all known genes in another type of microarray.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2008

  • Privately held Santaris is focused on the development of therapies that target ribonucleic acid, such as the so-called messenger RNA that carry genetic information to direct the creation of proteins.

    Pfizer, Santaris Expand Collaboration Pact Matt Jarzemsky 2011

  • For the first time, scientists have synthesized RNA enzymes – ribonucleic acid enzymes also known as ribozymes – that can replicate themselves without the help of any proteins or other cellular components.

    2010 February - Telic Thoughts 2010

  • Nobel Prize for discovery of the mechanisms involved in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid.

    Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010

  • Privately held Santaris is focused on the development of therapies that target ribonucleic acid, such as the so-called messenger RNA that carry genetic information to direct the creation of proteins.

    Business Watch 2011

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