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What is the role of the helicase enzyme in dna replication? apex?
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What is the role of the helicase enzyme in dna replication? apex?
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Helicase breaks hydrogen bonds of the DNA helix. Therefore it “unzips” the DNA helix and separates the strands for free complementary RNA strands which use the strands as a template during replication.
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It breaks apart the bases.
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