Mrna — Free Biology Illustration

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Mrna

A single-stranded messenger RNA molecule shown in simplified 2D textbook style as a long, thin, flexible linear to gently wavy ribbon or line, clearly unpaired and not double-helical. The strand has a smooth ribose-phosphate backbone with small nucleotide tick marks, bead-like units, short base projections, or occasional base letters such as A, U, C, and G along one side, sometimes grouped into codon triplets. It is typically colored in a bright contrasting color such as blue, teal, green, red, orange, purple, or magenta. The molecule is usually oriented and may be labeled with 5′ and 3′ ends, with slight bends or small loops, and no intron loops or strand pairing.

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