Antisense and sensibilities

[Stephen R. Lasky]

In article <4cha04$v2f at thorn.cc.usm.edu>, jtornow at whale.st.usm.edu wrote:


> When I teach this in my Genetics class, I refer to the DNA strand with
> the same sequence as the mRNA as the sense strand, and the other DNA
> strand (which is complementary to the mRNA) as the template strand.
> The students rarely get confused by this nomenclature, as it reflects
> the actual functions of the two strands.
> 
> Joanne Tornow
> University of Southern Mississippi

Not that it matters, but I think that this is a pretty good way to
describe the two strands of DNA.  Not historically accurate, but it makes
sense and seems to be close to the concensus.

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