Polymerase
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Biology
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Enzyme that synthesizes nucleic acid from precursors
DNA polymerase
Enzyme that synthesizes the complementary DNA strand of a template DNA strand by catalyzing the formation of phosphodiester bonds
Makes the complementary strand from 5' to 3'
Reads the template strand from 3' to 5'
Taq polymerase
Thermostable DNA polymerase that synthesizes DNA from deoxynucleoside triphosphates (abbr. dNTPs)
RNA polymerase
Enzyme that synthesizes RNA
Primase
RNA polymerase that synthesizes RNA primers on the template DNA strand
Ajitani Hifumi