In molecular biology, messenger RNA is a single-stranded molecule of RNA that corresponds to the genetic sequence of a gene and is read by a ribosome in the process of synthesizing a protein. In this research, kidney and liver mRNA from a young-adult female whale were sequenced using some previously well-known sequencing techniques. To understand which gene subsets are most expressed in both tissues and represent the most active processes in an organism, they conducted a Gene Ontology (Gene Ontology is a major bioinformatics initiative to unify gene and gene representation product attributes across all species) enrichment analysis. The results from this Gene Ontology highlighted the potential importance of these genes in lifespan determination and in linking human longevity and age-related diseases. They also concluded that large and especially long-lived species like the gray whale develop robust tumor suppressor mechanisms to compensate for having more somatic cells, hence a lower r...