Originally posted by curfew
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The TL;DR (or DW) is that mRNA is too large to passively diffuse into the nucleus and lacks the necessary structure to be actively transported in. Further, mRNA, being just a nucleic acid, can't do anything on its own. It is just a string of instructions that tells a ribosome to assemble amino acids in a particular order to make a particular protein.
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