sense vs antisense

[asdfray]

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Directly from KBB - "mRNA is assembled from ribonucleotides that are complementary to the "sense" strand of the DNA."

isn't mRNA complementary to the antisense DNA (or Template strand) and it's this strand that which mRNA is transcribed with? The sense DNA strand is the one that has the same sequence as the mRNA no (except for U for T)? Am I just reading this wrong? Am I thinking of the wrong thing and it's actually the sense DNA that acts as the template?

In KBB, even images in the book shows that mRNA is made from the sense strand.. which I'm confused about. Can someone elaborate on this?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Dotoday]

You are right. mRNA is the same as a sense strand with U instead of T. It was probably a typo.

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[asdfray]

@dotoday - thanks for responding.

I thought it was a typo as well, but in KBB, there's also a diagram that illustrate that sense RNA is complementary to mRNA, which is kind of throwing me off. haha anyone else got any idea?

 

[Ferferi]

Your right. mRNA is complementary to anti-sense.

 

[thejamespark]

mRNA is complementary to the anti-sense strand.
so that is why the mRNA has exactly the same bases as the sense strand.

 

[Dotoday]

It was just a mislabeling issue. It happens with certain software.

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