If a splice site sequence was mutated so that splicing did not take place, what would the effect be on the mrna

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Kali Martin

25 April, 07:30

If a splice site sequence was mutated so that splicing did not take place, what would the effect be on the mrna

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Zain Herring · Answer 1

Splicing is the cutting of some parts of the RNA resultant of the transcription (pre - mRNA) turning it into a mature messenger RNA (mRNA). The parts that are cut off are called introns and will not have a part on the translation. When splicing does not take place in a certain site, intron will not be removed there and that will affect how mRNA will be then translated.