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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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A gene, by the way, is a portion of DNA responsible for encoding messenger RNA for translation into protein.
Complementary DNA was made from messenger RNA using reverse transcription with a polydT primer.
We extracted poly-A tailed messenger RNA separately from the planarian head portion and the body portions.
Exons were assigned by comparison of messenger RNA and genomic sequences.
Three main classes of RNAs involved in protein synthesis include messenger RNA, transfer RNA and ribosomal RNA.
The system relies on short DNA sequences in bacterial messenger RNA that bind selectively to a specific small molecule.

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