A mRNA molecule left the nucleus and was degraded. What most likely did not occur before it left the nucleus?     3’-cap and 5'-poly(A) tail were not added     No splicing occurred     5'-cap and 3'-poly(A) tail were not added     Exons and not introns were spliced out

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  1. A mRNA molecule left the nucleus and was degraded. What most likely did not occur before it left the nucleus?

       

    3’-cap and 5'-poly(A) tail were not added

       

    No splicing occurred

       

    5'-cap and 3'-poly(A) tail were not added

       

    Exons and not introns were spliced out

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The mRNA is produced after transcription of the DNA sequence in the nucleus.

This RNA is quite unstable thus it goes through some more process before translation (synthesis of polypeptide chain on ribosomes outside nucleus).

These processes are capping, tailing and splicing. 

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