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What is ribonucleic acid?

What is ribonucleic acid? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) A derivative of DNA having ribose in place of deoxyribose, and uracil in place of thymine; its primary function is in the transcription of genetic material and subsequent synthesis of protein.
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Anfinsen's work in the late 1960s demonstrated that understanding the chemistry of proteins was essential to understanding the function of ribonucleic acid in heredity.
There is a conversion of desoxyribonucleic acid to ribonucleic acid.
It translates genetic information from messenger ribonucleic acid and makes protein accordingly.
There is a conversion of ribonucleic acid to desoxyribonucleic acid.
Dr. Nash's specialty was ribonucleic acid, or RNA, viruses, which cause a range of ills that include hepatitis C, viral meningitis and colds.
Toscana virus is a ribonucleic acid envelope virus from the family Bunyaviridae and genus Phlebovirus.

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