Depending upon the chemical nature of the template (DNA or RNA) and the nature of nucleic acids synthesised from it (DNA or RNA), list the types of nucleic acid polymerases.
Explanation Types of nucleic acid polymerase are: DNA dependent DNA polymerase: it is an enzyme that catalyzes the polymerization of deoxynucleotides by using a DNA template DNA dependent RNA polymerase: it is an enzyme which is responsible for the transcription of RNA by using a DNA template. In and Eukaryotic cell the RNA polymerases is of three types: (a). RNA polymerase I: it transcribes rRNA (b). RNA polymerase III: it transcribes tRNA, 5srRNA and snRNA (c). RNA polymerase II: it transcribes hnRNA which later becomes mRNA after processing. Final Answer Basically there are two essential nucleic acid polymerases; DNA polymerase that helps in the replication of DNA and RNA polymerase that helps in the transcription of RNA.
