Difference Between Transcription and Replication

 

Replication	Transcription
Occurrence
S phase of the cell cycle	G1 and G2 phase of the cell cycle
Primer
Requires RNA primer for replication to start	Does not require a primer
Enzymes
DNA Polymerase, DNA Helicase	RNA polymerase, Transcriptase
Genome copy
Entire genome is copied	Only certain genes are copied
Position
Found along the DNA strand	Found only along 1 strand of DNA
Raw material
dATP, dTTP, dCTP and dGTP	ATP, GTP, CTP, and UTP
Intend
Conserving genome for further generations	Making copies of RNA of genes individually
Result
Two daughter strands	mRNA, rRNA, non-coding RNA and tRNA
Degradation
Products do not degrade	Products degrade