Simple Illustration of An Intron and RNA Splicing
Introns and the process of RNA splicing can be illustrated using a text example. Consider the following quotation from Groucho Marx:
- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
To make this text look more like a nucleic acid sequence, we'll simply delete all punctuation and make all of the text uppercase. This will be our "message".
- OUTSIDEOFADOGABOOKISMANSBESTFRIENDINSIDEOFADOGITSTOODARKTOREAD
If there were a single intron within this sequence, it would look something like this:
- OUTSIDEOFADOGABOOKISMANSBEGUITUITGLSAJSAKHDLAYSIOEYASHDKLSALKDN
- KLASNDKLASKGDASJKBDNKNSKDKLSANDKNSKANDKNSAKNDKSAKLDHSDJGJASBDKN
- SANDLNSMALVJOPDHVANVLNVKLSAKNFADNGKLHKNIUHSAFLSAFLFASFOLSANFLNK
- FNKDSNGOIFSGHSKDHGKDHSFIABHFIHEHRFKHLKDHSUNSIUANIDAUBIOAYICMUSF
- AVMASSTFRIENDINSIDEOFADOGITSTOODARKTOREAD
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