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Subject: Why do the mRNA nucleotides in a cell not bond to eachother?

Date: Fri Nov 4 10:11:30 2005
Posted by Katie
Grade level: undergrad School: Thorpe St. Andrew 6th. form
City: Norwich State/Province: Norfolk Country: NR13 6AD
Area of science: Biochemistry
ID: 1131124290.Bc
Message:

I have been learning about protein synthesis and was wondering what prevents 
the mRNA nucleotides from bonding to eachother in their complementary base 
pairs, as i have read that they are much more stable as pairs than on their 
own. If they do join, but are broken apart again to bond with the antisense 
strand, how does this happen? Is it an enzyme, and if so what type of enzyme 
and how exactly.

Thanks very much for reading this,
Katie


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