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What is a major difference between DNA replication and DNA transcription?

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Answer:

RNA molecules produced by transcription are much shorter in length than DNA molecules produced by replication.

Step-by-step explanation:

In DNA transcription, only a segment of DNA is copied, or "transcribed," to a complementary strand of messenger RNA.

In DNA replication, the entire length of the DNA molecule is copied so that it can be passed to a new cell.

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