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Ribonucleic acid (RNA), like DNA, is also a macromolecule made up of nucleotides, although it is shorter. However, in contrast to DNA, RNA has the base uracil instead of thymine and it contains ribose instead of deoxyribose sugar (Fig. 15.1).
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Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (1905–1993), a Spanish-American doctor and biochemist and joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Arthur Kornberg.
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Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927–2010), an American biochemist and geneticist who shared the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for “breaking the genetic code” and describing how it operates in protein synthesis.
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Heinrich Matthaei, a German biochemist, best known for his unique contribution to solving the genetic code.
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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, a German biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis, for their research on the genetic control of embryonic development.
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Walter Jakob Gehring, professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland, was awarded the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology in 1997, the Kyoto Prize for Basic Science in 2000, and the Balzan Prize for Developmental Biology in 2002.
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Flammer, J., Mozaffarieh, M., Bebie, H. (2013). RNA. In: Basic Sciences in Ophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32261-7_15
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