Ok my teacher confused me very much today. We were talking about DNA making RNA and she first of all said that when polymerase unwinds the DNA the RNA attaches to the template strand and forms a complementary string of bases (ie. if the DNA was AGCTTAG the RNA would be UCGAAUC) and that the RNA is then the same as the coding strand.

This made sense and I understood it then later on she said the template and the coding strand were both identical which makes no sense. I asked for clarification but she warbled on and made even less sense.

Could someone (preferably a biology major or whatevs) give me a definitive answer on this?

Example question:

If the template was: TAGCCGAAT

Would the coding strand be : ATCGGCTTA ???