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Rework rna-transcription documentation (#2251)
This PR is part of our project of making our Practice Exercises more consistent and human. For more context please see the following forum-thread: https://forum.exercism.org/t/new-project-making-practice-exercises-more-consistent-and-human-across-exercism/3943 The main change is to frame the exercise within the context of story.
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# Description
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# Instructions
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Given a DNA strand, return its RNA complement (per RNA transcription).
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Your task is determine the RNA complement of a given DNA sequence.
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Both DNA and RNA strands are a sequence of nucleotides.
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If you want to look at how the inputs and outputs are structured, take a look at the examples in the test suite.
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# Introduction
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You work for a bioengineering company that specializes in developing therapeutic solutions.
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Your team has just been given a new project to develop a targeted therapy for a rare type of cancer.
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It's all very complicated, but the basic idea is that sometimes people's bodies produce too much of a given protein.
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That can cause all sorts of havoc.
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But if you can create a very specific molecule (called a micro-RNA), it can prevent the protein from being produced.
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This technique is called [RNA Interference][rnai].
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[rnai]: https://admin.acceleratingscience.com/ask-a-scientist/what-is-rnai/
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