With Respect to How MiRNAs Work, Which, If Any, of the Following

question 4

Multiple Choice

With respect to how miRNAs work, which, if any, of the following statements, is false?

• A) An miRNA is initially composed of two RNA strands, a passenger strand that will be destroyed and a complementary RNA, the guide strand, that is required for it to work.
• B) an active miRNA regulates target protein-coding genes by binding to complementary sequences in the mRNA
• C) A single miRNA normally binds to transcripts from just one target gene
• D) A single type of mRNA can be regulated by multiple different miRNAs.

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