BIOLOGY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Telomere, Ribonuclease H, Chromosome

which of the following is a short sequence required for the attachment of DNA pol iii to a dna strand for replication?

- dna primer
-rna primer
-telomere
-okazaki fragment

QUESTION 5

DNA polymerase requires ________ in order to startsynthesizing the new DNA strand.

During DNA replication, RNA primase puts an RNA primer in thelagging strand. What is the function of this RNA primer? Why can'tthe enzymes put DNA fragments directly?