Why both the strands of DNA of a particular segment are not copied during transcription?

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Because RNA molecule with different sequences complementary to each other will be formed

Because RNA molecule with same sequences will be formed

Because DNA molecule with identical sequences will be formed

Because DNA molecule with different sequences will be formed

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The strands in the DNA are complementary to each other, not identical. If the two RNAs are formed from both strands then RNAs with different sequences would be formed which can associate by hydrogen bonding to form double stranded RNA and translation will be futile.

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