A sestina, or sextain, is a poem comprised of six stanzas containing six lines each. These six-by-six stanzas are followed by a shorter (3-line) final stanza known as an envoi. This gives the sestina a total of 39 lines (6 * 6 + 3 = 39).
1 A nonsense mutation is a point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a premature stop codon, or a nonsense codon in the transcribed mRNA, and possibly a truncated, and often nonfunctional protein product.
mRNA, abbreviation for messenger RNA. An RNA (ribonucleic acid) molecule which has coding regions and translation signals derived from a gene, carries the reverse template message from DNA, and is required for protein synthesis.mRNA is a nucleic acid intermediate that specifies the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide during translation.n RNA (ribonucleic acid) molecule which has coding regions and translation signals derived from a gene, carries the reverse template message from DNA, and is required for protein synthesis. mRNA is a nucleic acid intermediate that specifies the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide during translation.