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Title: Which enzyme is active in DNA replication?
Post by: mikael on Jan 5, 2014
Which enzyme is active in DNA replication?
A) DNA polymerase
B) RNA polymerase
C) reverse transcriptase
D) aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase
E) RNase


Title: Re: Which enzyme is active in DNA replication?
Post by: wethepeople on Jan 5, 2014
Helicase: Unwounds a portion of the DNA Double Helix
RNA Primase: Attaches RNA primers to the replicating strands.
DNA Polymerase delta (ä): Binds to the 5' - 3' strand in order to bring nucleotides and create the daughter leading strand.
DNA Polymerase epsilon (å): Binds to the 3' - 5' strand in order to create discontinuous segments starting from different RNA primers.
Exonuclease (DNA Polymerase I): Finds and removes the RNA Primers
DNA Ligase: Adds phosphate in the remaining gaps of the phosphate - sugar backbone
Nucleases: Remove wrong nucleotides from the daughter strand.


Title: Re: Which enzyme is active in DNA replication?
Post by: padre on Jan 5, 2014
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Title: Re: Which enzyme is active in DNA replication?
Post by: mikael on Jan 6, 2014
Thanks for the help.