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Identify all the true statements about bacterial transcription (there may be more than one correct answer).

1. Transcription initiates at the start codon

2. Transcription requires the hydrolysis of dNTPs

3. Transcription occurs in the 5' to 3' direction

4. Transcription terminates within the ORF

5. Because bacterial RNA polymerase is different than eukaryotic RNA polymerase, it is used as an antibiotic target.

6. Termination of transcription by rho factor requires a poly U sequence

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7. Bacterial mRNAs have long half lives relative to the generation time

8. The machine that degrades mRNAs in bacteria is called the RNA degradosome

9. During transcription, a monophosphate group is released after each nucleotide is incorporated in the growing RNA chain.

10. Ribosomal RNA and mRNAs are transcribed by different bacterial RNA polymerases.

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