Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

The central dogma of molecular biology suggests that the primary role of RNA is to convert the information stored in DNA into proteins. In reality, there is much more to the RNA story. However ...

RNA is a large molecule that is present in the majority of living organisms and viruses and has similarities to DNA. Within plants, cells communicate with each other using RNA to coordinate growth ...