Describe the biochemical mechanism by which RNA splicing occurs precisely at the exon-intron borders considering that a single nucleotide offset by a mistake in splicing will reset the open reading frame register for the encoded protein

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BIOC 385 RNA Processing and Silencing Q11.2: Describe the biochemical mechanism by which RNA splicing occurs precisely at the exon-intron borders considering that a single nucleotide offset by a mistake in splicing will reset the open reading frame register for the encoded protein.
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