(cell and molecular biology) An enzyme involved in the initiation of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) replication that catalyzes the polymerization of short ribonucleic acid (RNA) primers on the template DNA.
DNA primase
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 | primase |
| RNA |
| Replication |
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