Life: The Science of Biology
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Author: David E. Sadava, David M. Hillis, H. Craig Heller, Sally D. Hacker
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Chapter 14.3, Problem 2R
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The significance and activity of ribonucleic acid (RNA) polymerase during transcription.
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Data on deoxyribonucleic (DNA) strand is rewritten on the RNA strand called the messenger RNA (mRNA) by a process termed as transcription. There are many factors that are involved in this process, ribonucleic acid polymerase or RNA pol being one of them, is essentially a holoenzyme apart from the main enzymatic unit, and it also has a coenzyme that works together to catalyze the biogenesis of a RNA molecule.
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