NEET 2010 Biology question

In eukaryotic cell transcription, RNA splicing and RNA capping take place inside the

(1)ER
(2)Ribosomes
(3)NucleusCorrect
(4)Dictyosomes

Answer: (3)

Solution

In eukaryotes transcription of DNA to hnRNA occurs in the nucleus, and the processing of hnRNA (splicing to remove introns and join exons, capping at the 5' end with methyl guanosine triphosphate and tailing at the 3' end with poly-A) also takes place in the nucleus.

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