16S rRNA may refer to:
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16S ribosomal RNA
16 S ribosomal RNA (or 16 S rRNA) is the RNA component of the 30S subunit of a prokaryotic ribosome ( SSU rRNA). It binds to the Shine-Dalgarno sequence and provides most of the SSU structure.
The genes coding for it are referred to as 16S rR ...
, the prokaryotic ribosomal subunit
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Mitochondrially encoded 16S RNA, the eukaryotic ribosomal subunit
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