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Which enzyme is responsible for adding nucleotides.

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Primers are required because DNA polymerases, the enzymes responsible for the actual addition of nucleotides to the new DNA strand, can only add deoxyribonucleotides to the 3'-OH group of an existing chain and cannot begin synthesis de novo.

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