Chapter 13.2, Problem 1CYL

Summary Introduction

To describe:

The process of transcription, and explain how DNA, RNA, and RNA polymerase interact to produce a strand of RNA.

Introduction:

Transcription is a biological process in which a template DNA is used to synthesize a complementary RNA strand. Transcription is facilitated by an enzyme called RNA polymerase, and other transcriptional factors. The RNA polymerase plays a key role in RNA synthesis. It breaks the hydrogen bonds between the double-stranded DNA to make it single stranded which act as template DNA for the RNA synthesis.