Competing endogenous RNAs act as molecular 'sponges.' What does this mean, and what do they compete with?

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Hello everyone here We have a question asking how do molecular sponges affect the control of gene expression? Molecular sponges combined to micro RNA, which are short RNA molecules that control gene expression by attaching to target M. R. N. A. S. And either boosting their destruction or blocking their translation. And what that does is sequester them from their target. M. RNA is decreasing their activity and boosting M. RNA stability. Which increases gene expression or molecular constructions can serve as RNA binding protein spies, which limit the ability of these proteins to bind to M. R. N. A. S. And increases the rate of M. RNA breakdown, which in turns lower gene expression. So our answer here is D. They can both increase or decrease gene expression depending on what they're doing. Thank you for watching. Bye.