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A scientist is studying a gene known as the XYZ gene in eukaryotes. Into a eukaryotic cell, she inserts an miRNA that is complementary to a portion of the XYZ mRNA found in the cell. What result would you predict

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Answer:

Inhibition of protein translation by degradation of the XYZ messenger RNA sequence

Explanation:

microRNAs (miRNAs) represent a class of noncoding RNAs (ncRNA) that are capable of regulating gene expression by binding to complementary target messenger RNA (mRNA) sequences in the 3´untranslated region (UTR)