The phrase
"transcription machinery" refers to the group of molecules and proteins responsible for "reading" and transcribing DNA into RNA. It is a complex system that helps convert genetic information from DNA to RNA, which is then used to produce proteins in our cells.
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«transcription»
«machinery»
Sentences with «transcription machinery»
- This overcommits the gene transcription machinery of larvae and pupae, causing them to die prematurely. (newscientist.com)
- This DNA, called transposons, can jump around the genome and insert themselves at different locales; at times they jam transcription machinery and cause disease. (sciencemag.org)
- When a methyl group (a carbon atom with three hydrogen atoms attached) binds to a cytosine molecule (one of the four nucleotides that make up DNA), it tells the cell's transcription machinery not to transcribe that gene. (scientificamerican.com)
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