Hi,
I was wondering:
which strand do we mean by talking about "THE forward strand"? I mean: if we say "it's the 3'->5' strand" then I would like to know: which one? Actually both strands have a 3'->5' direction ... ?
And if only one of the strands codes genes, then we could easily say "out of the two 3'->5' strands, the forward strand is the one that codes the genes". But both strands do code genes right?
So I'm confused, what's the forward strand?
I was wondering:
which strand do we mean by talking about "THE forward strand"? I mean: if we say "it's the 3'->5' strand" then I would like to know: which one? Actually both strands have a 3'->5' direction ... ?
And if only one of the strands codes genes, then we could easily say "out of the two 3'->5' strands, the forward strand is the one that codes the genes". But both strands do code genes right?
So I'm confused, what's the forward strand?
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