St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix-the three islands known to many as the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the reason millions of travelers head to the Caribbean every year.
This copying process is called transcription and the copy is mRNA. Transcription takes place in the cytoplasm (prokaryote) or in the nucleus (eukaryote). The transcription is performed by an enzyme called RNA polymerase. To make mRNA, RNA polymerase: 1  Binds to the DNA strand at a specific sequence of the gene called a promoter. 2  Unwinds and unlinks the two strands of DNA. 3  Uses one of the DNA strands as a guide or template.
Transcription is the first step of gene expression, in which a particular segment of DNA is copied into RNA (mRNA) by the enzyme RNA polymerase.he antisense strand of DNA is read by RNA polymerase from the 3' end to the 5' end during transcription (3' â 5'). The complementary RNA is created in the opposite direction, in the 5' â 3' direction, matching the sequence of the sense strand with the exception of switching uracil for thymine.