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To: delta7

Polymerases are enzymes that catalyze the synthesis of DNA or RNA polymers.

It’s been decades since I had a course in molecular genetics, so maybe I’m just out of the loop, but why are they referring to enzymes as “machines?”


10 posted on 06/19/2021 7:33:06 PM PDT by dsc (Abortion is the axe laid to the roots of the tree of human rights.)
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To: dsc

“why are they referring to enzymes as “machines?””

Because they are machines:
https://youtu.be/WFCvkkDSfIU


34 posted on 06/20/2021 1:54:01 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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