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What are nuclear pores ? State their function.

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At a number of places the nuclear envelope is interrupted by minute pores, which are formed by the fusion of its two membranes.
These nuclear pores are the passages through which movement of RNA and protein molecules takes place in both directions between the nucleus and the cytoplasm.
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