DNA polymerase

American  

noun

1. any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.

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DNA polymerase Scientific  

1. Any of various enzymes that function in the replication and repair of DNA by catalyzing the linking of nucleotides in a specific order, using single-stranded DNA as a template.

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DNA polymerase Cultural  

1. An enzyme that assembles new DNA by copying an existing strand.

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Etymology

Origin of DNA polymerase

First recorded in 1960–65; polymer + -ase

Example Sentences

Subsequent work suggested that the backsliding and repair machinery had to work quickly and dissipate, or it might collide with DNA polymerase to cause cell-death-inducing breaks in DNA chains.

From Science Daily

Specifically, the research team found that when DNA polymerase arrives at any specific gene, it disrupts the transcription in a way that reveals the state of that gene's regulatory status.

From Science Daily

There is a recursion here that is worth noting: like all proteins, DNA polymerase, the enzyme that enables DNA to replicate, is itself the product of a gene.*

From Literature

This technique, developed in the 1980s, uses the ability of DNA polymerase chains to synthesize new strands and make billions of copies of the sequences that are unique to the virus.

From Washington Post

Using ϕ29 DNA polymerase proved to be much more efficient: the technique was called multiple displacement amplification.

From Nature