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The biggest obstacle to expressing eukaryotic genes in prokaryotes is their structure. Eukaryotic genes have non-coding introns inserted between the coding exons, and these introns must be spliced out of the primary mRNA transcript before translation can proceed. The splicing is done by the spliceosome, a large, complex of RNA and protein. Prokaryotes do not have spliceosomes, thus eukaryotic genes would be transcribed with the introns intact, and translation by the ribosome would proceed on the primary mRNA transcript, resulting in non-functional proteins.

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