messenger RNA

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messenger RNA (plural messenger RNAs) (abbreviated as mRNA)

  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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information carrying RNA
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