General Genetics/Polyadenylation

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Polyadenylation occurs in Eukaryotes to prevent RNA trasncript degredation. A number of enzymes are involved, which add hundreds to thousands of adenines to the 3' end of an mRNA transcript. Many of these adenines will be lost before translation - but enough are added to prevent degredation of the script prior to translation.