Question

2. What is a feature of transcription? Both strands of a DNA molecule act as a template for mRNA. Nucleoside triphosphates become nucleotides by losing three phosphates. RNA polymerase binds to the promoter region. The sense strand acts as a template for mRNA.

Answer 1

RNA polymerase binds to the promoter region

Step-by-step explanation:

The correct answer would be that the RNA polymerase binds to the promoter region.

Transcription is a process during which mRNA is synthesized using the anticoding strand of the DNA as the template. The process is initiated when an enzyme known as the transcription factor binds to the TATA element within the promoter region - a region that signifies the beginning of a gene. This enables the RNA polymerase enzyme to also bind to the promoter leading to the formation of the initiation complex.

The RNA polymerase functions as a copier of the DNA nucleotides to RNA nucleotides during the elongation process of transcription.