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. 2020 Oct 12;20:496. doi: 10.1186/s12935-020-01581-5

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

The classification of coding and noncoding RNA. Eukaryotic mRNA molecules are usually composed of small segments of the original gene and are generated by a process of cleavage and rejoining from an original precursor RNA (pre-mRNA) molecule, which is an exact copy of the gene. Noncoding RNA (ncRNA) mainly include long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), microRNA (miRNA), pseudogene, circular RNA (circRNA), small interfering RNA (siRNA), piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA), small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA), small nuclear RNA (snRNA), ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and transfer RNA (tRNA)