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The processes of transcription, RNA processing (in eukaryotes), and translation constitute the pathway that leads to the conversion of genetic information in the linear sequence of bases in genomic DNA into the linear amino acid sequences of functional proteins. Thus, DNA undergoes transcription to synthesize a primary RNA transcript, which in eukaryotes undergoes RNA processing to produce a mature messenger RNA (mRNA), then mRNAs are translated into functional polypeptides. Each of these cellular processes will be described below.
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Yang, T.P., O’Brien, T.W. (2003). Transcription, RNA Processing, and Translation. In: Krawetz, S.A., Womble, D.D. (eds) Introduction to Bioinformatics. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-335-4_5
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