Question

Structures are not much important when it comes to the study of the functions.

(a) True

(b) False

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I need to ask this question from Types of RNA Structures topic in division RNA Structure Prediction of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

The correct answer is (b) False

To explain: Knowledge of the structures of these molecules is particularly important for understanding their functions. Difficulties in experimental determination of RNA structures make theoretical prediction a very desirable approach. In fact, computational-based analysis is the main tool in RNA-based drug design in pharmaceutical industry. In addition, knowledge of the secondary structures of rRNA is key for RNA-based phylogenetic analysis.