Question

An enzyme is a protein that facilitates certain cell processes. Drag the blue dna helicase enzyme onto the dna strand. What does this enzyme do to the dna molecule?.

Answer 1

Helicases are essential enzymes involved in all aspects of nucleic acid metabolism including DNA replication, repair, recombination, transcription, ribosome biogenesis and RNA processing, translation, and decay. Specifically, DNA helicases are essential during DNA replication because they separate double-stranded DNA into single strands allowing each strand to be copied. During DNA replication, DNA helicases unwind DNA at positions called origins where synthesis will be initiated.