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Which of the following steps in transcription is catalysed by RNA polymerase?

A

Initiation

B

Elongation

C

Termination

D

All of the above

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b
The RNA polymerase is only capable of catalysing the process of elongation. It associates transiently with initiation factor sigma and termination factor rho to ini- tiate and terminate the transcription respectively
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