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Given below is the sequence of coding strand of DNA in a transcription unit 3 'A A T G C A G C T A T T A G G – 5’ write the sequence of a) its complementary strand b) the mRNA

a) Complementary strand : 5’-T T A C G T C G A T A A T C C-3’

Here, Adenine bonds with thymine & Guanine bonds with cytosine.


b) the mRNA: 5’ A A U G C A G C U A U U G G-3’


In RNA Adenine bonds with uracil instead of thymine & Guanine bonds with cytosine.


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