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define sterol regulatory element binding proteins srebpsthese belong to a general family of transcription factors they are synthesized as membrane
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define termination phase - mechanism of protein synthesistermination rna polymerase recognizes the terminator which results in no further nucleotides
define elongation phase - mechanism of protein synthesiselongation rna polymerase moves along the dna and sequential synthesizes the rna chain there
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define transcription phase of gene expression processtranscription is the enzyme synthesis of rna on a dna template this is the first stage in the
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