GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
Question
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messenger RNA
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RNA primer
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proteases
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ribosomes
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Detailed explanation-1: -DNA replication requires other enzymes in addition to DNA polymerase, including DNA primase, DNA helicase, DNA ligase, and topoisomerase.
Detailed explanation-2: -DNA dependent DNA polymerase requires RNA primer for initiating replication but DNA dependent RNA polymerase does not require any primer for transcription.
Detailed explanation-3: -An enzyme, DNA polymerase, is required for the covalent joining of the incoming nucleotide to the primer. To actually initiate and sustain DNA replication requires many other proteins and enzymes which assemble into a large complex called a replisome.
Detailed explanation-4: -RNA primers are used by living organisms in the initiation of synthesizing a strand of DNA. A class of enzymes called primases add a complementary RNA primer to the reading template de novo on both the leading and lagging strands.