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    Dec 22, 2008, 03:26 PM
    Definition of polymerese?
    I encountered this term in a book recently but can find no definition for it. What is the definition of polymerese? Is it related to polymerase? I assume it is pronounced "POLY-muh-rees"? Thanks for any assistance. Rick Dixon.
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    Dec 22, 2008, 05:57 PM

    An enzyme that catalyzes the formation of new DNA and RNA from an existing strand of DNA or RNA
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    Dec 22, 2008, 08:05 PM

    I'm confident that "polymerese" is a typo & that they meant polymerase.
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    Dec 22, 2008, 09:23 PM

    There are different kinds of polymerases. DNA polymerase joins DNA bases together into long chains. RNA polymerase does the same for the subunits of RNA.

    Think "polymer"--a long chain of molecular subunits--and "ase" the ending for any enzyme.

    Polymer + ase = polymerase / Pul IM er ase
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    Dec 29, 2008, 08:23 PM

    This is a not uncommon misspelling of polymerase...
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    Jan 5, 2009, 11:09 AM
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    Polymerese means something and so does polymerase
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