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What is a ribozyme?
A ribozyme is an RNA molecule that is capable of catalyzing a chemical reaction. Prior to the discovery of ribozymes, the only known biological catalysts were proteins called enzymes.
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What are spliceosomes made of?
The spliceosome is a complex of small nuclear RNA (snRNA) and small nuclear protein (snRNP) molecules, snRNAs and snRNPs. snRNPs include U1, U2, U4, U5 and U6.
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What is the action of a spliceosome?
snip out introns from mRNA.
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What is the function of the spliceosome?
In eukaryotic organisms, genes consist of exons and introns. Exons are regions that are transcribed into mature messenger RNA, and eventually translated into protein. Interspersed within the exons...
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What is nature of ribozymes?
Ribozymes are RNA catalyzing enzymes.