ribonucleic acid

Questions about ribonucleic acid

What does ribonucleic acid mean?

ribonucleic acid means "(biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell".

What is another word for ribonucleic acid?

Close synonyms include RNA. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ribonucleic acid a common word?

ribonucleic acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.