DNA is tightly wound in a double helix for much of the time. What enzyme unwinds the double helix and be-gins transcription of RNA?

a. RNA polymerase
b. DNA polymerase
c. Transcriptase
d. RNA isomerase
e. Complementary isomerase


A

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