Monday, October 20, 2008

New discovery by Agent Superstar Nerd: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA

RNA is an acronym for ribonucleic acid, a nucleic acid. RNA is transcribed from DNA by an enzyme called RNA polymerase and further processed by other enzymes.
RNA translates genes into proteins, transferring amino acids from the nucleus to the ribosome to form proteins, and also translating the transcript into proteins. This process is called translation.
RNA is physically different to DNA: DNA contains two intercoiled strands whereas RNA only contains one single strand. RNA also contains different bases to DNA. It contains:
(A) Adenine (G) Guanine (C) Cytosine (U) Uracil
The first three bases are also found in DNA, but Uracil replaces Thymine as a complement to Adenine.
RNA also contains ribose as opposed to deoxyribose found in DNA.
RNA is the carrier of genetic material in different types of viruses such as AIDS virus i.e. HIV (HUMAN IMMUNO DEFICIENCY VIRUS) and in that case called a retrovirus.

1 comment:

helloaudear! said...

ermm... too much info already Agent ASN... we just need to know that RNA come from DNA... like we come from Blueprint... Hahahah!