mRNA

English

Alternative forms

mrna

Noun

mRNA (plural mRNAs)

(biochemistry) Initialism of messenger RNA.
- 2015, Ferris Jabr, How Humans Ended Up With Freakishly Huge Brains, Wired:
  When a cell “expresses” a gene, it translates the DNA first into a signature messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence and subsequently into a chain of amino acids that forms a protein.

Translations

messenger RNA

Catalan: ARNm m
French: ARNm (fr)
Italian: mRNA (it)

Portuguese: ARNm (pt)
Spanish: ARNm m
Swedish: mRNA (sv)

See also

mDNA

Anagrams

NRMA, RMAN

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