Small interfering RNA

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Small interfering RNA (siRNA) are a class of 20–25 nucleotide-long RNA molecules that interfere with the expression of genes. These are produced as part of the RNA interference (RNAi) process by the enzyme Dicer.

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Nucleic acids edit

Nucleobases
Adenine – Thymine – Uracil – Guanine – Cytosine
Purine – Pyrimidine –

Nucleosides
Adenosine – Thymidine – Uridine – Guanosine – Cytidine
Deoxyadenosine – Deoxythymidine – Deoxyuridine – Deoxyguanosine – Deoxycytidine
Ribose – Deoxyribose

Nucleotides
AMP - TMP - UMP - GMP - CMP
ADP - TDP - UDP - GDP - CDP
ATP - TTP - UTP - GTP - CTP
cAMP - cGMP

Deoxynucleotides
dAMP - dTMP - dUMP - dGMP - dCMP
dADP - dTDP - dUDP - dGDP - dCDP
dATP - dTTP - dUTP - dGTP - dCTP

Nucleic acids
DNA - RNA - mRNA - ncRNA - miRNA - rRNA - shRNA - siRNA - tRNA - Oligonucleotide

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