Lithium Has Been Shown to Have Antidepressant Effects

question 11

True/False

Lithium has been shown to have antidepressant effects.

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Definitions:

Translation

The process in molecular biology whereby the genetic code carried by mRNA is decoded to produce the specific sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide chain.

Messenger RNA

A type of RNA that carries genetic information from DNA to the ribosome, where proteins are synthesized.

Transcribed

The process by which a segment of DNA is copied into RNA by the enzyme RNA polymerase.

Exons

Regions within a gene that are kept after splicing and translated into protein.