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What is RNA polymerase and explain what it does

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DescriptionRNA polymerase, abbreviated RNAP or RNApol, officially DNA-directed RNA polymerase, is an enzyme that synthesizes RNA from a DNA template.

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RNA polymerase is a multi subunit enzyme that catalyzes the process of transcription.

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The central dogma of biology has looked at RNA as a messenger molecule, that exports the information coded into DNA out of the nucleus in order to drive the synthesis of proteins in the cytoplasm: DNA → RNA → Protein.

So in other words, it's responsible for copying a DNA sequence into an RNA sequence, during the process of transcription.

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