Ribonucleic Acid, or RNA, is a
nucleic acid. Ribose forms the sugar backbone, and each ribose is connected by a phosphate group.
There is also one of four bases attached to the RNA. The four bases are adenine, guanine, cytosine and uracil. RNA serves many purposes in the cell, but the primary purpose is to convert the information in DNA to proteins during the process of
translation.
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