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Study revealing the secret behind a key cellular process refutes biology textbooks – Phys.org
New research has identified and described a cellular process that, despite what textbooks say, has remained elusive to scientists until now—precisely how the copying…
New research has identified and described a cellular process that, despite what textbooks say, has remained elusive to scientists until nowprecisely how the copying of genetic material that, once started, is properly turned off.
The finding concerns a key process essential to life: the transcription phase of gene expression, which enables cells to live and do their jobs.
During transcription, an enzyme called RNA polymerase wraps itself around the double helix of DNA, using one strand to match nucleotides…
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