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<cell biology> The enzyme that polymerises nucleotide triphosphates to form oligoribonucleotides in a 5' to 3' direction. The enzyme synthesises the RNA for RNA DNA sequences that later become Okazaki fragments and also RNA primers for some types of phage using an sDNA template.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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