Question

Answer the following questions with respect to transcription:

• What is the template?
• What is the name of the enzyme that synthesizes the RNA?

Answer 1

What is template?

Answer : A template strand is the term that refers to the strand used by the RNA polymerase to attach complementary bases during RNA transcription. Transcription uses one of the two exposed DNA strands as a template; this strand is called the template strand.
Molecule moves down the strand in the 3' to 5' direction, and at each subsequent base, it adds the complement of the current DNA base to the growing nucleic acid strand (which is thus created in the 5' to 3' direction).
The RNA product is complementary to the template strand and is almost identical to the other DNA strand, called the non template (or coding) strand.

What is the name of the enzyme that synthesizes the RNA?

Answer : RNA polymerase is the enzyme which synthesizes RNA by following a strand of DNA. RNA polymerase is an enzyme that is responsible for copying a DNA sequence into an RNA sequence, during the process of transcription.
Using a DNA template, RNA polymerase builds a new RNA molecule through base pairing. RNA polymerases are large enzymes with multiple subunits, even in simple organisms like bacteria. Humans and other eukaryotes have three different kinds of RNA polymerase: I, II, and III. Each one specializes in transcribing certain classes of genes.