Question

Explain the process of Rna interference

Answer 1

RNA interference (RNAi) is a biological process in which RNAmolecules inhibit gene expression, typically by causing the destruction of specific mRNA molecules. Historically, it was known by other names, including co-suppression, post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS), and quelling. Only after these apparently unrelated processes were fully understood did it become clear that they all described the RNAi phenomenon. Andrew Fire and Craig C. Mello shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicinefor their work on RNA interference in the nematode wormCaenorhabditis elegans, which they published in 1998. Since the discovery of RNAi and its regulatory potentials, it has become evident that RNAi has immense potential in suppression of desired gene. RNAi is now known as precise, efficient, stable and better than antisense technology for gene suppression