Learning Strategies in Biochemistry:
Transcription and RNA Processing

Revised 2008/05/22

Essential Review

See the Learning Strategy for Nucleic Acids.

Useful Activities

 Write out full mechanisms, with full structures of the nucleotides directly involved, for these reactions:

• RNA polymerase action
• Lariat mechanism of intron removal
• Self-splicing of pre-rRNA

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