Life: The Science of Biology
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Author: David E. Sadava, David M. Hillis, H. Craig Heller, Sally D. Hacker
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Chapter 14.4, Problem 2R
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The steps for ribonucleic acid (RNA) splicing and the consequence, if it fails to occur in the cell correctly.
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In a prokaryotic cell, messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule that is synthesized contains a continuous sequence of codons that are used to synthesize the proteins. On the contrary, in case of eukaryotes, the transcript has introns that do not code for any protein. These are placed between the coding sequences called exons. Therefore, in the eukaryotes, splicing occurs to remove these intronic regions, which is the last step of the posttranscriptional modification.
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