What are the similarities between RNA splicing and alternative splicing?

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RNA splicing and alternative splicing are two types of modifications that follow the transcription of eukaryotic genes. Both are important for the production of a functional protein. They share the following similarities:

Both splice exons by removing introns
They are both post-transcriptional modifications that occur during eukaryotic gene expression
Both occur inside the nucleus 
Both produce a mRNA molecule
The effector molecule for both is the primary RNA strand

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