Definition of "ribonucleic" [ribonucleic]

• Of or pertaining to ribonucleic acid (RNA) or its derivatives (adjective)

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• "Ochoa's enzyme produces ribonucleic acids from ribonucleotides having twice the ratio of phosphoric acid residues as that contained in ribonucleic acid."
• "In the late 1950s, Jacques Monod and François Jacob, working in Paris, Sydney Brenner and Matthew Meselson at Caltech, and Francis Crick in Cambridge, discovered that the genesis of proteins from genes requires an intermediary step—a molecule called ribonucleic acid, or RNA."
• "The substructure of gene products known as ribonucleic acid, or RNA, is evaluated for all known genes in another type of microarray."