What is the GU-AG rule?

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: The coding strand sequence of a eukaryotic gene has a 5? splice site consensus sequence of GT and a 3? splice site consensus sequence of AG, so the transcribed pre-mRNA will have splice site consensus sequences of GU and AG.

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