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mRNA messenger RNA.
mRNA (mär-n-)
n.
RNA, synthesized from a DNA template during transcription, that mediates the transfer of genetic information from the cell nucleus to ribosomes in the cytoplasm, where it serves as a template for protein synthesis. Also called messenger RNA.
mRNA,
abbreviation for messenger RNA.
mRNA
a unique set of tRNAs, mRNAs, rRNAs, transcribed from mitochondrial DNA by a mitochondrial-specific RNA polymerase, which account for about 4% of the total cell RNA which is transcribed.


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