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Describe what is happening in the first step of protein synthesis (pictured on the right) in 2 sentences. __
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The first step of protein synthesis is transcription. During transcription, the DNA double helix unwinds, and one of the strands serves as a template for the synthesis of messenger RNA (mRNA), which is a complementary copy of the DNA sequence.