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To: zot

The DNA dependent RNA polymerase starts at a unique place on one DNA strand and goes only in one direction.


311 posted on 11/16/2005 12:42:43 PM PST by furball4paws (One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
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To: furball4paws
The DNA dependent RNA polymerase starts at a unique place on one DNA strand and goes only in one direction.

Thanks. I didn't know that. But if the unique place on one DNA strand isn't at one end of the strand, it would seem that the RNA doesn't replicate the entire DNA strand. That must be enough to make a protein. And the entire strand is only replicated during mitosis. Correct?

329 posted on 11/16/2005 1:08:46 PM PST by zot (GWB -- four more years!)
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