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Fig. 10.6 Energy levels of the hydrogen atom (Moore 1963, p. 475)
The term “ribon” is derived from “rib-” meaning
ribonucleic acid
and ”-on”
meaning discrete entity or trajectory and defined as the
patterns
of time-dependent
variations of RNA levels measured with DNA arrays
inside the cell
(such as
exemplified by the RNA trajectories shown in Fig. 9.1 in Sect.
9.2
). Ribonics is
then the study of
ribons
. When convenient,
ribons
can also be referred to as
RNA
dissipatons, r-dissipatons, RNA trajectories, or RNA waves
, since all these terms
refer to different aspects of the same reality. Since the mRNA levels are determined
by both transcription rates and degradation rates (Ji et al. 2009a),
ribons
are
