Q.Removal of introns and joining of exons in a defined order during transcription is called :
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →The removal of introns and the joining of exons in a defined order, during processing of the RNA transcript, is called splicing.
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In eukaryotes, the RNA polymerase first produces a primary transcript (pre-mRNA or hnRNA) that contains both coding regions (exons) and intervening non-coding regions (introns), copied directly from the gene. Before this transcript can serve as a template for translation, it must be processed: the intron sequences are precisely excised, and the remaining exon sequences are joined together end to end, in their original, defined order, to produce the shorter, mature mRNA. This excision-and-joining process is called splicing, and it is carried out inside the nucleus by a large ribonucleoprotein machine called the spliceosome, which recognises specific sequence signals at each intron-exon boundary. Splicing is essential because if the i …
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