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What are introns and extrons and how are they different?
Exon DNA encodes for the RNA included in the final mRNA transcript that encodes for proteins. Intron DNA is found within exons, but is spliced out as the mRNA molecule is processed.
What makes premature mrna and mature mrna different?
The first (primary) transcript from a protein coding gene is often called a pre-mRNA and contains both introns and exons. Pre-mRNA requires splicing (removal) of introns to produce the final mRNA molecule containing only exons
What is the difference between an intron and exon?
Exons code for amino acids (they are usable codons) Introns code for nothing.
What happens to the introns and exons during transcription?
After transcription, the mRNA is processed by the spliceosome, which splices out the introns (because introns are not part of the coding sequences for protein), and "stitches" the exons together to form the final transcript that is sent to the ribosome for translation.
What is an exon?
When a gene is transcribed to for an mRNA molecule, introns are removed and exons stay to be reattached to from one linear mRNA molecule again. This final RNA sequence then gets used by a Ribosome to form a protein
What is the function of the spliceosome?
In eukaryotic organisms, genes consist of exons and introns. Exons are regions that are transcribed into mature messenger RNA, and eventually translated into protein. Interspersed within the exons are introns, regions of non-coding DNA. Introns must be removed from the initial transcript of mRNA before the final mature transcript is sent to the ribosome for translation into protein. This removal is done in a coimplex protein structure called the spliceosome. The spliceosome splices out the non-coding introns from the primary mRNA transcript, and stiches the exons back together into the mature mRNA transcript.
Sequence in mRNA is not expressed as proteins?
introns
What is the action of a spliceosome?
snip out introns from mRNA.
What are the sequences within mRNA that are spliced out?
Introns
Sequence in mrna that is not expressed as a protein?
introns
What is the small pieces of DNA that are edited out of the mRNA message before it is expressed?
During the transcription, when the mRNA is being processed, the introns are removed and the exons are connected together.
Introns in pre-mRNA are known to?
Undergo Excision
