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RNA biosynthesis

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Abstract

Gene expression involves a sequential flow of information. In the first stage of this process, known as transcription, one strand of double-stranded DNA is copied into an RNA. In contrast to DNA replication the genome is not copied in its entirety. Rather, defined units of genetic information are copied into RNA molecules which may function as messenger (mRNA), form a component of ribosomes (rRNA) or have an adapter function (tRNA). All three of these RNA products take part in the subsequent stage of gene expression, known as translation, in which mRNAs are used as coded messages for the synthesis of protein. Translation is discussed in Chapter 11.

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