DNA Polymerases | Prokaryotic | Eukaryotic | Viral

A DNA polymerase is a member of a family of enzymes that catalyze the synthesis of DNA molecules from nucleoside triphosphates, the molecular precursors of DNA. These enzymes are essential for DNA replication and usually work in groups to create two identical DNA duplexes from a single original DNA duplex. During this process, DNA polymerase "reads" the existing DNA strands to create two new strands that match the existing ones.
DNA polymerase adds nucleotides to the three prime (3')-end of a DNA strand, one nucleotide at a time. Every time a cell divides, DNA polymerases are required to duplicate the cell's DNA, so that a copy of the original DNA molecule can be passed to each daughter cell. In this way, genetic information is passed down from generation to generation.
The main function of DNA polymerase is to synthesize DNA from deoxyribonucleotides, the building blocks of DNA. The DNA copies are created by the pairing of nucleotides to bases present on each strand of the original DNA molecule. This pairing always occurs in specific combinations, with cytosine along with guanine, and thymine along with adenine, forming two separate pairs, respectively. By contrast, RNA polymerases synthesize RNA from ribonucleotides from either RNA or DNA.

When synthesizing new DNA, DNA polymerase can add free nucleotides only to the 3' end of the newly forming strand. This results in elongation of the newly forming strand in a 5'–3' direction.

[michaeleisenberg]

Hello Shabir, Tons of information. Thank you for preparing and organizing this. There are so many DNA polymerases the scientists are going to run out of letters in the Greek alphabet. 👏👏🎯🎈🎁🧨

[priyankaswami]

Again am here for your informative video...😍

[kanicasharma]

sir why is it called nucleotide triphosphate ? nucleoside means without phosphate group but here we have phosphate group attached

[tanveerahmadyatoo]

Sir agr app kashmiri ya Urdu language use krta to .... Understanding mai easy hota ...