BIO 1130 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Primase, Helicase, Pyrimidine

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Under normal conditions he tendency for the formation of the hydrogen bonds between the two strands would pull them back together, but special stabilizing proteins make sure that the two strands don"t zip back up: two different polymerases can synthesize dna or rna biopolymers (dna polymerase, rna polymerase) The differences: dna polymerase makes dna and rna polymerase makes rna. Rna polymerase can use a single strand of dna to position the first nucleotide and start stitching the subsequent nucleotides of the complimentary strand together; dna polymerase can"t get the first nucleotide in place and needs to have a few nucleotides of the complimentary strand and a free 3" end before it can get down to work: a special rna polymerase (primase) gets everything started and forms a primer sequence of nucleotides that are complimentary to the nucleotides in the dna strand to be copied.

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