Transcription Terminator At Biology Glossary

What is it? A nucleotide sequence that acts as a signal for termination of transcription. There are two common types of transcription terminators: Rho-independant terminators (usually a stem-loop structure in the transcribed RNA followed by a run of U residues) are t

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