RNA Processing in Eukaryotes

RNA Processing in Eukaryotes

This text discusses mRNA processing and the processing of tRNAs and rRNAs. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.

Topics

  • 7-methylguanosine cap
  • aminoacyl tRNA synthetase
  • anticodon
  • CAAT box
  • Central Dogma
  • codon
  • collinear
  • consensus
  • core enzyme
  • degeneracy
  • downstream
  • exon
  • FACT
  • GC-rich box
  • hairpin
  • holoenzyme
  • initiation site
  • initiator tRNA
  • intron
  • Kozak’s rules
  • nonsense codon
  • nontemplate strand
  • Octamer box
  • peptidyl transferase
  • plasmid
  • poly-A tail
  • polysome
  • preinitiation complex
  • promoter
  • reading frame
  • Rho-dependent termination
  • Rho-independent
  • RNA editing
  • Shine-Dalgarno sequence
  • signal sequence
  • small nuclear RNA
  • splicing
  • start codon
  • TATA box
  • template strand
  • transcription bubble
  • upstream
  • genes
  • RNA processing
  • protein
  • proteins
  • gene