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DNA/RNA hybridization results with mRNAs from developing Xenopus embryos suggest that each mRNA molecule is internally heterogeneous, containing a main part transcribed from unique DNA and a covalently linked smaller part transcribed from a family of homogeneously repeated sequences.
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DINA, D., CRIPPA, M. & BECCARI, E. Hybridization Properties and Sequence Arrangement in a Population of mRNAs. Nature New Biology 242, 101–105 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio242101a0
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