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Author: Peter Stiling, Robert Brooker, Linda Graham, Eric Widmaier
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To determine: The biological advantage of alternative splicing.

Introduction: In eukaryotic organisms, a pre-messenger RNA (Ribose nucleic acid) transcript undergoes modification process before it completely becomes a mature messenger RNA. Splicing is a way by which noncoding regions (introns) can be spliced out from coding regions (exons).

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