What are the steps in transcription?

Question

as in DNA

Answer 1

Initiation, elongation and termination.

Answer 2

First the helicase (enzyme) unzips the double helix. DNA transcriptase (another enzyme) assembles the DNA to match up with the code. It goes Adenine-Thymine and Guanine-Cytosine, anyway the nucleotides are just kind of floating around out there in the cell. The polymerase basically just snags the right one and sticks it on. This happens on both of the unzipped strands, so that each new piece of DNA is half of the original piece. Transcription occurs in the nucleus by the way.