Rna Processing

Question 0

What is put on the five prime end?

Answer 0

A guanine cap

Question 1

Where

Answer 1

Nucleus

Question 2

What is put on the 3 prime end?

Answer 2

Poly A tail

Question 3

Function of the caps

3

Answer 3

1 protect from enzymes that may degrade it
2 helps ribosomes attach to 5prime end
3 helps mRNA get out of the nucleus

Question 4

Spliceosome

Answer 4

Cuts out introns that don’t code for proteins

Question 5

What are spliceosome so made of

Answer 5

SnRNA and proteins

Question 6

Exons

Answer 6

Code for amino acids

Question 7

Intron

Answer 7

Don’t code for anything

Question 8

What happens in processing

Answer 8

Introns taken out and
5’ cap
And 3’ poly a tail added