Transcription just means making a single stranded RNA copy of a sequence of base pairs in a DNA.

转录的过程就是从一段DNA碱基序列中,复制出一段单链RNA

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Well, what if you knew the sequence for the messenger RNA that made insulin and you designed another single stranded DNA or RNA molecule that was the exact opposite, or the exact compliment, I should say, of that strand?

那么,如果你知道了,合成胰岛素的mRNA的序列,并设计一段与其序列完全相反的,DNA或者RNA分子,应该说是完全互补的一段分子

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