See also:
The
strand of
DNA which is used during
transcription to make mRNA. The mRNA made thus has the
sequence of the
antisense strand of
DNA, and it codes for a
sense strand of
polypeptide (which eventually becomes a
protein or part of a
protein) during
translation.
From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.