RNA metabolic process (GO:0016070)

The cellular chemical reactions and pathways involving RNA ribonucleic acid, one of the two main type of nucleic acid consisting of a long, unbranched macromolecule formed from ribonucleotides joined in 3',5'-phosphodiester linkage.

Specific

lagging strand elongation (GO:0006273) leading strand elongation (GO:0006272) mitochondrial RNA metabolic process (GO:0000959) mRNA metabolic process (GO:0016071) ncRNA metabolic process (GO:0034660) RNA biosynthetic process (GO:0032774) RNA catabolic process (GO:0006401) RNA exon ligation (GO:0000378) RNA folding (GO:0034337) RNA modification (GO:0009451) RNA phosphodiester bond hydrolysis (GO:0090501) RNA processing (GO:0006396) RNA repair (GO:0042245) RNA replication (GO:0039703) RNA secondary structure unwinding (GO:0010501) viral double stranded DNA replication via reverse transcription (GO:0039688)

General

nucleic acid metabolic process (GO:0090304) cellular macromolecule metabolic process (GO:0044260)

References

gene ontology: GO:0016070