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RNAi

RNAi is the initialism of RNA interference.

Meaning of RNA interference

Noun

RNA interference (uncountable)

  1. A biological process in which RNA molecules are involved in sequence-specific suppression of gene expression by double-stranded RNA, through translational or transcriptional repression.
    Synonyms:
    RNAi, cosuppression, quelling, post-transcriptional gene silencing

Questions about RNAi

What is RNAi the initialism of?
RNAi is the initialism of RNA interference.

Words near RNAi in the dictionary

  1. RNA world
  2. RNA worlds
  3. RNA-Seq
  4. RNAaemia
  5. RNAemia
  6. RNAi
  7. RNAS
  8. RNase
  9. RNAseq
  10. RNases
  11. RnB

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Adapted from Wiktionary: RNAi (page history and authors); RNA interference (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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