A scientist is studying the action of RNA polymerase during transcription. He wants to know what type of bases are added to the growing mRNA by RNA polymerase.

bases complementary to the template DNA
bases the same as those in the template DNA
bases similar to the template DNA

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A scientist is studying the action of RNA polymerase during transcription. He wants to know what type of bases are added to the growing mRNA by RNA polymerase.

bases complementary to the template DNA
bases the same as those in the template DNA
bases similar to the template DNA

setsuna-yuregeshi · Answer

What do you think?
What do you know about transcription?

gray_wolf · Answer

i think it is C

setsuna-yuregeshi · Answer

So, according to what you know, what is transcription?

gray_wolf · Answer

Transcription is the process by which the information in a strand of DNA is copied into a new molecule of messenger RNA (mRNA). DNA safely and stably stores genetic material in the nuclei of cells as a reference, or template.

setsuna-yuregeshi · Answer

So say I have this DNA sequence |dw:1465323663402:dw|