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5.Molecular Basis of Inheritance
medium

Removal of introns and joining the exons in a defined order in a transcription unit is called

A

tailing

B

transformation

C

capping

D

splicing.

(AIPMT-2009) (AIPMT-2012)

Solution

(d) : $mRNA$ is not made directly in a eukaryotic cell. It is transcribed as heterogeneous nuclear $RNA\ (hnRNA)$ in the nucleus. $hnRNA$ contains introns and exons. The introns are removed by $RNA$ splicing leaving behind the exons,which contain the information. The exonic regions of $RNA$ are joined together to produce a single chain $RNA$ required for functioning as translational template.

Standard 12
Biology

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