In prokaryotes, a single RNA polymerase ... ribose has more oxygen atoms than deoxyribose. Thus, the elongation period of transcription creates a new mRNA molecule from a single template strand ...

elongation, and termination. Transcription initiation begins with the binding of RNA polymerase, a multi-subunit enzyme, to a specific DNA sequence called the promoter region. Prokaryotic ...

Comparing Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Translation The translation process is very similar in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Although different elongation ... in bacteria, transcription and translation ...