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Unit 3 Biochemistry

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[DNA replication] Step 7 cont

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Special DNA repair complexes made of proteins and enzymes (including DNA polymerase 1 & DNA polymerase II) remove a small section of nucleotides around the error. This missing section is replaced by DNA polymerase III, and a missing phosphodiester bond of last nucleotide is joined by DNA ligase. Just to reiterate: DNA polymerase III constructs a new strand in a 5' 3' direction


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