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什么是 Messenger RNA and transcription?

又称: RNA · transcription · messenger RNA

Definition 14.3 High School Biology · 第 14 章 — From Gene to Protein

RNA (ribonucleic acid) is a single-stranded chain of nucleotides like those of DNA, except that its sugar is ribose and the base uracil (U) replaces thymine (T). Transcription is the copying of a gene’s sequence into a molecule of messenger RNA (mRNA): the enzyme RNA polymerase opens the double helix along the gene, reads one strand (the template strand) and assembles the complementary RNA, U facing A, A facing T, G facing C and C facing G. The mRNA has the sequence of the gene’s other strand, with U for T; it leaves the nucleus for the cytoplasm.

Transcription. RNA polymerase opens the helix, reads the template strand and builds a messenger RNA complementary to it (U in place of T). Behind the enzyme the helix closes again; the RNA peels off.
Transcription. RNA polymerase opens the helix, reads the template strand and builds a messenger RNA complementary to it (U in place of T). Behind the enzyme the helix closes again; the RNA peels off.

示例

Example 14.4 (A transcript)

Template strand 3’-TAC GGA CTT ATC-5’ gives the mRNA 5’-AUG CCU GAA UAG-3’. The gene’s other strand reads 5’-ATG CCT GAA TAG-3’: the mRNA is that strand’s sequence with U for T, which is why gene sequences are conventionally written as that strand, the coding strand.

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