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The sequence of what in mRNA complements the sequence in the the DNA template?

For a cell to use this information one strand of the DNA serves as a template for the synthesis of a complementary strand of RNA. The transcribed DNA strand is called the template strand with antisense sequence and the mRNA transcript produced from it is said to be sense sequence (the complement of antisense).

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Prokaryotic mRNA does not undergo the same process. Strictly speaking only the mRNA makes "sense" with the genetic code as the translated protein peptide sequence can be directly inferred from this strand. The "antisense" strand of DNA is complementary to the " sense" strand and is the actual template for mRNA synthesis.

The pre- mRNA molecule synthesized is complementary to the template DNA strand and shares the same nucleotide sequence as the coding DNA strand. However there is one crucial difference in the nucleotide composition of DNA and mRNA molecules.

In molecular biology messenger RNA is a single-stranded molecule of RNA that corresponds to the genetic sequence of a gene and is read by a ribosome in the process of synthesizing a protein. Transcription is the process of copying a gene...


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