Transcription

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We watched the beginning of the following video that shows transcription in real time before we went ahead and started going through transcription with our Knex Models:

K'nex Models:


The DNA is Unzipped by RNA
polymerase and nucleotides were added. 
In the mean time, The DNA is being zipped
back up behind it.



At the end we have our original DNA double
helix (on the right) left unchanged and an mRNA
molecule that can leave the nucleus and head
to the cytoplasm