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Question
Name the enzyme and state its property that is responsible for continuous and discontinuous replication of the two strands of a DNA molecule
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Solution
DNA polymerase is the enzyme. The property that is responsible for continuous and discontinuous replication of the two strands of a DNA molecule is that the enzyme catalyzes the polymerization of nucleotides in the 5' to 3' direction.
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