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noun, plural: sense strands
Strand of DNA running from 5′ to 3′ complementing the antisense strand, and transcribed into mRNA
Supplement
The sense strand is the segment in the DNA to be transcribed to make mRNA. The resulting mRNA transcript can then be processed (e.g. splicing, in eukaryotes) and translated into a polypeptide.
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Definition noun, plural: sense strands Strand of DNA running from 5′ to 3′ complementing the antisense strand, and transcribed into mRNA Supplement The sense strand is the segment in the DNA to be transcribed to make mRNA. The resulting mRNA transcript can then be processed (e.g. splicing, in eukaryotes) and translated into a polypeptide. Also..
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