How is RNA polymerase used in RNA?

Answer 1

From the Biology book I have studied in my 9th grade schooling...

RNA polymerase is an enzyme much like that of DNA polymerase. Both enzymes, RNA and DNA polymerase, "unzip" the DNA. (Keep in mind that DNA is in the shape of a double helix, so think of it as a twisted ladder being sawed straight down the middle.)

Now, hold on, first you need to know more about DNA to understand how RNA polymerase is used in making RNA.

-DNA is made up of two Pairs of Nucleotides stacked on top of one another, and each parallel to the other... bonded in the middle with weak hydrogen bonds, like so..

(untwist the Double helix and you'd get this...)

(...ETC)

P

SN-NS

P P

SN-NS

P P

SN-NS

P P

SN-NS

P

(ETC...)

-Nucleotides are three part units (bolded above) made of... a Phosphate (P), a Five-carbon Sugar (S), and a Nitrogenous Base (N). ("-" Is the weak hydrogen bond between the Nitrogenous Bases.)

Explanation for Each...

-(S), The Five Carbon Sugar in DNA, is deoxyribose (it's ribose, like in RNA, but with one less oxygen molecule). Hence we get the term DNA, DeoxyriboNucleic Acid, from... DNA's five carbon sugar, it's location in the Nucleus, and the fact that it (it has a pH level of less than 6) is an Acid.

-(P), The Phosphate, Just sits there in my opinion. I don't know much about it.

-(N), The Nitrogenous Base. Nitrogenous Bases can be four different types in DNA:

Adenine (A), Thymine (T), Guanine (G), and Cytosine (C)