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#Question id: 3787


A biochemist isolates, purifies, and combines in a test tube a variety of molecules needed for DNA replication. When she adds some DNA to the mixture, replication occurs, but each DNA molecule consists of a normal strand paired with numerous segments of DNA a few hundred nucleotides long. What has she probably left out of the mixture?

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology
  1. DNA polymerase

  2. DNA ligase

  3. Okazaki fragments

  4. primase