stranded where? stranded where? stranded where?
It depends what you mean by double stranded. If you mean two separate RNA strands, perfectly complementary to one another and existing as a basepaired structure in the cytoplasm, then no. Double stranded RNA like that only occurs in some types of viruses (and cells infected by them... so I guess the cytoplasm of a cell infected by a double stranded virus might have a lot of this kind of double stranded RNA). However, if you mean double stranded in the sense of a single RNA molecule folding back on itself and basepairing with itself - forming stem loops and more complicated structures - that kind of RNA double-strandedness is extremely common. All tRNA's and rRNA's for example exhibit this kind of double-strandedness. Nucleic acids are unstable in single stranded states and will spontaneously fold back on themselves if there is no other strand to basepair with. Nucleic acids are inherently unstable in a single stranded state. Thus,
to be stranded is to have no familiar place to go
If you're stuck somewhere with no way of getting anywhere else, you're stranded. If you run out of gas while driving in the desert, you'll be stranded until someone finds you. Good luck! If you're stranded, you probably experienced some kind of transportation failure.
Leaving you high and dry is leaving you stranded, like a boat out of water.
It means driven or left aground (a ship, fish) or stuck, left in a helpless position, e.g. He was stranded in the middle of nowhere. Another synonym could be "marooned."The word can also mean "composed of strands," such as a stranded rope or wire (braided).
tRNA is single stranded. It forms a cloverleaf-like structure with base pairing within the molecule itself, but it is not double stranded like DNA.
RNA is always single stranded. DNA, on the other hand, can exist as either single-stranded or double-stranded.
it depends on where they are stranded, if they are stranded in a place with no food they might possibly die.
no..it's double-stranded..
I was stranded on a desert island
After his engine failed, bart was stranded in the dark. The pack was stranded on a desert island. Jamal did not mind being stranded on a deserted isle as long as his best friend Spalding was there with him. The stranded team tried to get themselves rescued.