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Solutions For An Introduction to Genetic Analysis Chapter 8 Problem 32P

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The removal of introns (non-coding RNA sequences) from RNA (ribonucleic acid) is called Splicing. This process could be done by both enzymatic machinery called spliceosome and introns itself (self-splicing or Group-II). The self-splicing introns are longer than the introns spliced by spliceosome.

The man intron length of a spliceosome intron is 75-150 nucleotides and the self-splicing intron is 3413 bases (3 kb). This is because the self-splicing or Group-II has catalytic structural domains, just like protein complexes of spliceosomes.

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