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barry barry
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12 years ago
Prokaryotes have almost no introns. What is the significance of this?
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12 years ago
A lack of introns for prokaryotes means that they also lack the necessary machinery involved in RNA splicing. The splicesomes that mediate this process are found in the nucleus of eukaryotes, which prokaryotes lack.
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