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Which enzyme is responsible for laying down the daughter nucleotides during DNA replication?

A.DNA ligase


B.RNA primase



C.DNA polymerase


D.DNA helicase

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Answer: C

Explanation: DNA polymerase is the enzyme that matches and lays down nucleotides to build the daughter DNA strand along each parent DNA strand. Now we're left with all these Okazaki fragments that are separate from each other, so they need to be joined together by the enzyme DNA ligase

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