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2.1 Introduction
2.11 Several Processes Are Required to Express the Protein Product of a Gene
• A prokaryotic gene is expressed by transcription into mRNA and then by translation of the
mRNA into protein.
• In eukaryotes, a gene may contain internal regions that are not represented in protein.
• Internal regions are removed from the RNA transcript by RNA splicing to give an mRNA
that is colinear with the protein product.
• Each mRNA consists of a nontranslated 5’ leader, a coding region, and a nontranslated
3’ trailer.