👉 Riboza, also known as ribozyme or ribozyme gene, is a type of gene that codes for an enzyme called ribozyme. Ribozymes are enzymes that can catalyze reactions such as DNA methylation and RNA splicing in living cells. The term "riboza" was coined by the biologist David H. Rabinowicz in 1987, who described a ribozyme gene found within the mitochondrial genome of bacteria. Ribozymes