Where is RNA synthesized?

Biochemists refer to RNA synthesis as transcription . Transcription is the process of synthesizing ribonucleic acid (RNA). read more

RNA (mRNA, messenger RNA) is synthesized *by* RNA polymerase as it sits on and reads the DNA sequence being transcribed, but all of this occurs within a "transcription bubble" located on an open stretch of DNA, which is housed in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell or floating in the cytosol of a prokaryotic cell. read more

Transcription is the process of synthesizing ribonucleic acid (RNA). Synthesis takes place within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells or in the cytoplasm of prokaryotes and converts the genetic code from a gene in deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ) to a strand of RNA that then directs protein synthesis. read more

Messenger RNA (mRNA) is the RNA that carries information from DNA to the ribosome, the sites of protein synthesis (translation) in the cell. The coding sequence of the mRNA determines the amino acid sequence in the protein that is produced. read more