Question Select the correct answer.
The angle of Earth's tilt has changed throughout Earth's history and is still changing today. If Earth's tilt were to decrease
from 23.5° to 20.2°, which of the following changes do you expect would occur?
O Changes between seasons would be less drastic.
Years would become slightly longer than they are now.
O Summer at locations along the equator would be shorter.
Earth would no longer experience seasonal changes.

step 1: initiation

initiation is the beginning of transcription. it occurs when the enzyme rna polymerase binds to a region of a gene called the promoter. this signals the dna to unwind so the enzyme can ‘‘read’’ the bases in one of the dna strands. the enzyme is now ready to make a strand of mrna with a complementary sequence of bases.

step 2: elongation

elongation is the addition of nucleotides to the mrna strand. rna polymerase reads the unwound dna strand and builds the mrna molecule, using complementary base pairs. there is a brief time during this process when the newly formed rna is bound to the unwound dna. during this process, an adenine (a) in the dna binds to an uracil (u) in the rna.

step 3: termination

termination is the ending of transcription, and occurs when rna polymerase crosses a stop (termination) sequence in the gene. the mrna strand is complete, and it detaches from dna.