Given a DNA strand, return its RNA complement (per RNA transcription).
Both DNA and RNA strands are a sequence of nucleotides.
The four nucleotides found in DNA are adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T).
The four nucleotides found in RNA are adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and uracil (U).
Given a DNA strand, its transcribed RNA strand is formed by replacing each nucleotide with its complement:
G
-> C
C
-> G
T
-> A
A
-> U
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Hyperphysics http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Organic/transcription.html
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import { toRna } from './rna-transcription'
describe('Transcription', () => {
test('empty rna sequence', () => {
expect(toRna('')).toEqual('');
});
xtest('transcribes cytosine to guanine', () => {
expect(toRna('C')).toEqual('G');
});
xtest('transcribes guanine to cytosine', () => {
expect(toRna('G')).toEqual('C');
});
xtest('transcribes thymine to adenine', () => {
expect(toRna('T')).toEqual('A');
});
xtest('transcribes adenine to uracil', () => {
expect(toRna('A')).toEqual('U');
});
xtest('transcribes all dna nucleotides to their rna complements', () => {
expect(toRna('ACGTGGTCTTAA')).toEqual('UGCACCAGAAUU');
});
})
export const toRna = (dna_strand) => {
let nucleotides = {'C': 'G', 'G': 'C', 'T': 'A', 'A': 'U'};
let rna_strand = '';
for (const nucleotide of dna_strand) {
rna_strand += nucleotides[nucleotide];
}
return rna_strand;
};
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