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===Sense strand, coding strand, noncodagenic strand, nontemplate strand=== | ===Sense strand, coding strand, noncodagenic strand, nontemplate strand=== | ||
The DNA strand with the same sequence as the transcribed mRNA (given U in RNA and T in DNA) | The DNA strand with the same sequence as the transcribed mRNA (given U in RNA and T in DNA). | ||
===Antisense strand, noncoding strand, codagenic strand, template strand=== | ===Antisense strand, noncoding strand, codagenic strand, template strand=== | ||
The DNA strand that forms the template for both the transcribed mRNA and the coding DNA strand. | The DNA strand that forms the template for both the transcribed mRNA and the coding DNA strand. | ||
==References== | |||
<biblio> | |||
#Codingsite http://www.biochem.northwestern.edu/holmgren/Glossary/Definitions/Def-C/coding_strand.html | |||
#Anticodingsite http://www.biochem.northwestern.edu/holmgren/Glossary/Definitions/Def-A/anticoding_strand.html | |||
#Schickor-EMBO-1990 pmid=2192861 | |||
</biblio> | |||
Latest revision as of 16:45, 1 May 2006
Sense strand, coding strand, noncodagenic strand, nontemplate strand
The DNA strand with the same sequence as the transcribed mRNA (given U in RNA and T in DNA).
Antisense strand, noncoding strand, codagenic strand, template strand
The DNA strand that forms the template for both the transcribed mRNA and the coding DNA strand.
