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Why is only one nucleotide added at a time during DNA replication?

Why is only one nucleotide added at a time during DNA replication?-example-1
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Answer:DNA polymerase has only one side to extend the growing DNA synthesized chain

Step-by-step explanation:

DNA polymerase is only have the ability to read one base at a time from the parent strand. Therefore it can only add one base at a time on the daughter (new) strand

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