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What is transfer RNA?

What is transfer RNA? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (biochemistry) A short-chain version of RNA that transfers individual amino acids to ribosomes during protein synthesis.
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These waves are emitted when these amino acids, carried by the transfer RNA, are gathering in order to form proteins.
The defect was a substitution in a single DNA unit, or base, in a mitochondrial gene that coded for a transfer RNA molecule.
Among the 112 unique genes, we identified 79, 29, and 4 protein-coding, transfer RNA, and ribosomal RNA genes, respectively.
During the manufacture of a protein, transfer RNA, also called tRNA, normally places an amino acid at the end of a growing chain of protein building blocks.
The classic categories of noncoding RNAs include ribosomal RNA and transfer RNA, both of which are involved in the translation process.
Sequence-specificity binding of transfer RNA by glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase.

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