Talk:MtDNA control region

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I have slight concerns about the image associated with the top of the article. Firstly, I do like the image. However, the on-page title of the image and that of the image itself don't quite align. It is of the secondary structure of the 7S RNA found in the control region, but the image title would lead the reader to believe that this secondary structure is of the DNA itself. When I saw the uracils in the image, I instantly understood it to be RNA, but would everyone?

This normally might not be worth being so exact about, but given that this MT region has weird and interesting DNA structure properties, I think it might be worth being ultra-clear here.

(and if I think of a good re-title for the image, I'll make change the myself, and reference back to this talk section, if possible). Jr what (talk) 20:33, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, it's misleading -- the structure is sourced from the Pereira article, in this they propose that this is a DNA structure -- but it looks like transcription was not thoroughly checked. The image was automatically generated by the Rfam pipeline, hence the "U's" and could be replaced with "T's". A further issue is this statement "There is also an open reading frame thought to code for 7s ribosomal RNA in humans" -- which doesn't make a whole lot of sense. 7S rRNA is not a protein. --Paul (talk) 20:40, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]