Describe the role of DNA polymerase in DNA replication

DNA polymerase is an enzyme that adds complimentary DNA nucleotides to the separate DNA strands during DNA replication. It adds a nucleotide to the 3 prime end of the DNA base pairs. DNA polymerase adds the nucleotides along the strand in a 5 prime to 3 prime direction.

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