Failure to Remove Introns from a Primary MRNA Would Most

question 42

Multiple Choice

Failure to remove introns from a primary mRNA would most likely cause

• A) irregularities in transcription.
• B) abnormal translation.
• C) DNA to mutate.
• D) DNA replication to fail.
• E) transcription to terminate early. The exons of a eukaryotic primary mRNA contain the protein coding region of the gene, and thus the introns must be removed during primary mRNA splicing so that a usable message is obtained. If they are not removed, the protein that would result from translating the mRNA will be altered.

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