Answer to Question #171009 in Genetics for Sam

Question

The mRNA strand produced in the nucleus is complementary to the template strand of the DNA and a copy of the coding strand. Explain this:

Answer 1

The RNA product is complementary to the template strand and is almost identical to the other DNA strand, called the nontemplate (or coding) strand.If the gene that's transcribed encodes a protein (which many genes do), the RNA molecule will be read to make a protein in a process called translation.