ribonucleic acid   (TTS Sound)

The noun ribonucleic acid has 1 sense

• ribonucleic acid, RNA -- ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell; "ribonucleic acid is the genetic material of some viruses")