How RNAi Works The term RNA interference (RNAi) was coined to describe a cellular mechanism that use the gene's own DNA sequence of gene to turn it off, a process that researchers call silencingIn a wide variety of organisms, including animals, plants, and fungi, RNAi is triggered by doublestranded RNA (dsRNA) During RNAi, long dsRNA is cut or "diced" into small fragments DNA viruses contain DNA as the genetic material while RNA viruses contain RNA as the genetic material Generally, DNA genomes are larger than RNA genomes Furthermore, most DNA viruses contain doublestranded DNA while most RNA viruses contain singlestranded RNA These are the key differences between DNA and RNA viruses DNA is doublestranded, RNA, on the other hand, is single stranded DNA is more stable under extreme condition conditions, but RNA is not very stable due to it only being single stranded DNA and RNA perform different functions in humans DNA is responsible for storing and transferring genetic information while RNA directly codes for amino
Programming Molecular Topologies From Single Stranded Nucleic Acids Nature Communications
