messenger RNA
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- noun
- /ˈmɛsɪndʒər ˈɑːrˈɛnˈeɪ/
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- You were saying that the ribosome reads the messenger RNA by these three letter codes.
- messenger RNA and protein
Those messages are called mRNA messenger RNA, OK.
- Those messages are called mRNA messenger RNA, OK.
- So to explain that in biology, primary structure is the code in the messenger RNA that says what the ribosome should build.
- Moderna's vaccine is also an mRNA vaccine or a messenger RNA vaccine.
- So the ribosome allows the mRNA, the messenger RNA.
- So messenger RNA is basically, you're not supposedly, OK, You're not getting injected with the virus.
- And, and this is, this is true for one particular type of RNA, which won't be the style of of this conversation, which is messenger RNA.
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It's called messenger RNA because it then travels out into the cell to the ribosomes.
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It's the location where messenger RNA is translated into protein.
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So what would happen is normally messenger RNA would leave the nucleus of the cell.
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And you know that you probably know that messenger RNA is read in three base units called codons.
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We'll break our messenger RNA sequence into codons.
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Moderna's vaccine is also an mRNA vaccine or a messenger RNA vaccine.
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Each cDNA molecule represents a copy of a single messenger RNA, or mRNA, derived from the gene sequence.
Academic text (1992) -
The viral messenger RNA migrates into the cytoplasm, where building blocks for a new virus are synthesized.
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The structure showed how the genetic code of messenger RNA, which is a direct replicate transcribed from the DNA of genes, could be read out and translated into the corresponding amino acid residues of proteins.
Academic text (1995) -
Cells contain thousands of messenger RNA molecules, which carry copies of DNA's genetic instructions to the rest of the cell.
Synonyms
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A molecule that carries DNA instructions to make a protein
A molecule that carries DNA instructions to the part of the cell that makes proteins
A molecule that carries instructions from DNA to cell parts that make proteins
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'messenger' (one who carries messages) combined with 'RNA' (a nucleic acid carrying genetic information) yields an RNA that carries genetic messages. This construction follows common word-formation logic and has clear equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand the term.
Etymology
Messenger RNA comes from the image of a messenger and the molecule RNA: a tiny carrier that brings 'instructions' from DNA in the cell's center to the parts that make proteins. That clear picture explains why messenger RNA means an RNA that 'carries' genetic instructions to build proteins.