Do miRNA come from double-stranded RNA?
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Do miRNA come from double-stranded RNA?
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Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a biological compound that plays a crucial role in the regulation of various aspects of protein synthesis. Proteins are the biological molecules that carry out most of a cell's work.
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View this answerMicroRNA (miRNA) comes from single-stranded RNA. miRNA is a form of RNA that can be used to silence certain messenger RNA transcripts by base pairing...
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What is RNA? | Function, Importance & Uses
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Chapter 6 / Lesson 8In this lesson on RNA, see the ribonucleotide definition, learn what RNA does, why RNA is important, what RNA is made of, and see RNA types and structure.
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