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What is a messenger RNA?

What is a messenger RNA? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) RNA that encodes and carries information from DNA during transcription to sites of protein synthesis to undergo translation in order to yield a protein.
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In RNA editing, specific nucleotides within the sequences of messenger RNA transcripts are modified during or after splicing.
The system relies on short DNA sequences in bacterial messenger RNA that bind selectively to a specific small molecule.
This conclusion was reached prior to the discovery of messenger RNA, transfer RNA, or the mechanism of translation.
It is difficult to identify a gene from a genomic sequence unless a messenger RNA from of the gene has been previously isolated, according to Fannon.
Complementary DNA was made from messenger RNA using reverse transcription with a polydT primer.
Exons were assigned by comparison of messenger RNA and genomic sequences.

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