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Capping and tailing are seen during the transcription of RNA.
a. How is this process done? b. What is the use of this process?

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a. Capping is done by adding a methylated guanosine at the 5. end. Tailing is done by adding 200-300 adenylate residues at the 3. end.
b. Capping and tailing are used to process the hnRNA. The fully pro cessed hnRNA is called mRNA.
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