Biology 2010 Student Edition

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 9780133669510
ISBN 13: 978-0-13366-951-0

Chapter 12, DNA - Assessment - 13.4 Gene Regulation and Expression - Understand Key Concepts/Think Critically - Page 388: 29

Answer

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Interference occurs when small double-stranded pieces of mRNA are diced into miRNA, resulting in the separation of the two strands, with one of the miRNA strands binding to a cluster of proteins, creating a silencing complex. This silencing complex inactivates mRNA strands that have complementary bases to the miRNA. These mRNA strands can no longer be translated into proteins.
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