Multiple Choice
Which of the following mechanisms is used to produce the two different forms of the delta antigen from the hepatitis delta virus?
A) RNA editing by the insertion of an extra base into the mRNA.
B) RNA editing by deamination of a specific base in the genome.
C) Alternative mRNA splicing.
D) Translational readthrough of a stop codon.
E) Ribosomal frameshifting.
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