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what is tRNA ?
tRNA stands for transfer RNA. It is one of the three type of RNA present in the living cells [rRNA, mRNA and tRNA]. The name "Transfer" comes from its funtion to transfer the amino-acids to the the polypeptide chain that is in the process of synthesis in the ribosome complex.
Thus its function is in protein synthesis
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Sridhar Acharya Malkaram
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Sequence and Structural Analysis, Next generation sequencing, Illumina, SOLiD, CHiP-sequencing, RNA sequencing, miRNA sequencing analysis, Molecular Dynamics, Protein and Nucleic acid simulations, computational methods, Bioinformatics tools, Biological Databases, Search techniques, Protein comparative modelling, Mutation analysis
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Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
Master of Science in Biotechnology
Ph.D in computational Biology
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