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Hifumi's Study Notes📕Cegep 1BiologyPolymerase

Polymerase ​

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Cegep1
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

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