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Q. State true or false
Antisense RNA used for silencing a cellular mRNA in RNAi has sequence complementary to antisense strand of mRNA.

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The antisense RNA will be complementary to the 5. region of the mRNA, and thereby it regulates the downstream translation process and regulates the gene expression. Hence the answer is FALSE

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