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Name:  RNA metabolic process
Definition:  "The chemical reactions and pathways involving RNA, ribonucleic acid, one of the two main type of nucleic acid, consisting of a long, unbranched macromolecule formed from ribonucleotides joined in 3',5'-phosphodiester linkage." [ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"]
Class ID:  GO:0016070
Parent Lineages:  biological_process>   metabolic process>   primary metabolic process>   nucleobase, nucleoside, nucleotide and nucleic acid metabolic process>   RNA metabolic process
Child:  RNA catabolic process
mRNA processing
mRNA transcription
rRNA metabolic process
tRNA metabolic process
Number Subfamilies/Families:  2814
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