Protein Synthesis: process of transcription by filling in missing half with mRNA?

Question

Protein Synthesis:

Use the segment below of DNA to show the process of transcription by filling in missing half with mRNA.

- T A C T G T G C A A T G C A A T T -


How does this RNA differ from this DNA ?

ATGACACGCTTACGTTAA

Answer 1

the mRNA strand of this DNA strand would have the following sequence of nucleotide bases:
A U G A C A C G U U A C G U U A A
to answer the second question, this RNA strand differs from the above DNA strand because RNA does not contain the nitrogenous base thymine; instead it has been replaced with uracil. there are also several other differences that distinguish between a DNA strand and an RNA strand

Answer 2

Just adding to and correcting a bit the previous answer.

Nucleic acids are always written by convention in the 5'->3' order.
Thus you would have the double stranded DNA

5'- T A C T G T G C A A T G C A A T T -3'
3'- A T G A C A C G T T A C G T T A A -5'

and the RNA produced with the top strand as template would be

3'- A U G A C A C G U U A C G U U A A -5' , but according to the convention the proper way to write it is:

5'- A A U U G C A U U G C A C A G U A-3'

So the differences of the mRNA with the following DNA

5'-ATGACACGCTTACGTTAA-3'

in terms of sequence (as Just Curious said there are more other types of dif/ces) are

1)You have U instead of T
2)You have an extra C in your DNA sequence, which I guess is a typing error
3)most important, the sequence is reversed...
Remember that translation is also 5'->3' and the order you write the sequence is not jut scrambling letters; the way you write it is indicative of which bonds are formed.

Similar question has been asked before. I was too hasty to answer and had to retract my answer once I realized the mistake with the direction. I think this correspondance course should be a bit more carefully organised and have clear/properly formulated questions.

Answer 3

The top and bottom sequence are most complimentary, you have a extra C on the bottom right before the double TTs in the middle. And they are both DNA, since in RNA there is no T, it is instead of U