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Q.The addition of adenylate residue at the 3' end of a template in an independent manner is called

(a) splicing
(b) tailing
(c) capping
(d) split gene
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Tailing is the post-transcriptional addition of a poly-A tail to the 3' end of a pre-mRNA, added independently of the DNA template.

Among the post-transcriptional processing steps of eukaryotic hnRNA (heterogeneous nuclear RNA, the primary transcript), 'tailing' refers specifically to the addition of about 200–300 adenylate (adenine nucleotide) residues at its 3' end, forming a poly-A tail. Unlike normal transcription, this addition occurs independently of the DNA template. Splicing (a) is the removal of introns and joining of exons, capping (c) is the addition of a …

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