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How DNA replicates?

Updated: 4/1/2022
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DNA first unwinds by the polymerase into two strands, then polymerases run over the two strands, replace a new strand on each old strand, forming two new DNA with one new strand and one original strand in each.

(The polymerase is the enzyme)

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