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DNA Coding Strand

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ANSWER: C. 5′ CTATTG 3′

The coding strand is the DNA strand that is not transcribed into mRNA. The coding strand is identical to the mRNA strand, except with T’s instead of U’s. The template strand (choice A) is what gets transcribed into mRNA. Understand the difference between coding and template strands as well as base-pair rules.