Elongation
- The second and probably most important stage in transcription is elongation
- During elongation the RNA Polymerase "zips " across the DNA strand splitting in down the middle, duplicating it as RNA, and putting it back together
- On RNA molecules there is no Thymine (T). Taking its place is Uracil (U) which can be seen on the RNA strand bellow in yellow
- The picture below shows a DNA strand undergoing the elongation stage of Transcription. The strand is coming out of the RNA Polymerase