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In molecular biology dogma, ribonucleic acid (RNA) is the mediator between the information carrier DNA and the functional carrier protein. RNA is therefore often referred to as a hermaphrodite in the dogma since RNA is both an information carrier and a functional carrier. The information is carried by the complementary sequence of the DNA. The function results from the fact that the ribosome, which converts messenger RNA into proteins, consists mainly of RNA.
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**ek M, Doudna JA (2009) A three-dimensional view of the molecular machinery of RNA interference. Nature 457:405–412
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Schmidt, M.F. (2022). RNA: Information and Function Carrier. In: Chemical Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64412-6_8
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