The Blocking of Translation of an MRNA by MiRNA Occurs

question 5

Multiple Choice

The blocking of translation of an mRNA by miRNA occurs because the miRNAــــــــــــــــــــــ .

• A)binds to the 3'-UTR of the mRNA and prevents translation
• B)targets the mRNA for degradation by Slicer
• C)binds to the 5'-UTR to prevent the ribosome from binding
• D)folds into alternative stem-loop structure and protects the mRNA from nuclease cleavage

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