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OpenStudy (anonymous):

can anyone tell me sumthing about sense and anti-sense RNA in detail

OpenStudy (anonymous):

out of two strand of dna only one strand participates in transcription this is called anti sense strand/template strand for amino acid/non coding strand while sense strand is the strand which do not participate in transcription and it act as a template for anti sense strand and also known as coding strand

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Something i found, i dont kn ow those terms though, im Irish and on the European system so there may be different words for different things. Hope it helps, ill have a look into ot late on though http://www.euchromatin.com/Hovsepian05.htm

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Just think about the two strands of DNA that make up the gene being transcribed. One of those strands is going to be the template, which is what the RNA Polymerase "reads" by bringing in complementary nucleotides to make the mRNA. So the template strand is complementary to the actual single-stranded RNA that is produced. The template strand of the DNA is known as antisense. The other strand of the DNA is complementary to the template strand (since it's stuck together in double-stranded DNA, it has to be). So it "looks like", or has the same sequence as, the mRNA that is produced (besides the fact that RNA has U where DNA has T's). Therefore, this strand of the DNA is referred to as the sense strand. When you're talking about RNA being "sense" or "antisense", it means which of the two DNA strands it resembles. Naturally, all mRNA produced is "sense", as I explained above. However, scientists make antisense RNA synthetically to use as probes against the sense mRNA transcripts in a cell. Because antisense and sense RNA are both single-stranded and complementary to each other, they can bind together. This can be used in various tests to tell the scientists whether a particular mRNA product is present in a cell, or how much of it is there, just by seeing whether an antisense RNA strand will bind or not.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

thnx to everyone

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