STEM Dictionary

Ribonucleic acid (RNA)

nucleic acid that carries instruction from DNA for making a protein.

The dogma of molecular biology is DNA –> RNA –> Protein.

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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 1104229, 1501756, and 1902474.