Like the title says, im having trouble visualizing what it means when it says eukaryotic mRNA is monocistronic and prokaryotic mRNA is polycistronic. Please help.
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To add on to what was said above, prokaryotes typically want to compress their genomes down to be smaller than eukaryotes and so you can sort of think of polycistronic as having a Swiss Army knife (maybe with a knife, scissors, a fork, whatever) and as monocistronic as having a knife separate from scissors, etc. The Swiss Army knife takes up a lot less space than having a collection of individual tools does.
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