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  2. Primer (molecular biology) - Wikipedia

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    The DNA replication fork. RNA primer labeled at top. A primer is a short, single-stranded nucleic acid used by all living organisms in the initiation of DNA synthesis.A synthetic primer may also be referred to as an oligo, short for oligonucleotide.

  3. Primer binding site - Wikipedia

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    A primer binding site is a region of a nucleotide sequence where an RNA or DNA single-stranded primer binds to start replication. The primer binding site is on one of the two complementary strands of a double-stranded nucleotide polymer , in the strand which is to be copied, or is within a single-stranded nucleotide polymer sequence.

  4. Primer dimer - Wikipedia

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    The result is a stem-loop primer that excludes annealing involving shorter overlaps, but permits annealing of the primer to its fully complementary sequence in the target. Chimeric primers: some DNA bases in the primer are replaced with RNA bases, creating a chimeric sequence. The melting temperature of a chimeric sequence with another chimeric ...

  5. Primer extension - Wikipedia

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    Primer extension offers an alternative to a nuclease protection assay (S1 nuclease mapping) for quantifying and mapping RNA transcripts. The hybridization probe for primer extension is a synthesized oligonucleotide, whereas S1 mapping requires isolation of a DNA fragment. Both methods provide information where a mRNA starts and provide an ...

  6. Adapter (genetics) - Wikipedia

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    NGS adapters are short ~80 BP fragments that bind to DNA to aid in amplification during library preparation and are also useful to bind DNA to the flow cell during sequencing. [5] These adapters are made up of three parts that flank the DNA sequence of interest. There is the flow cell binding sequence, the primer binding site, and also tagged ...

  7. DnaG - Wikipedia

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    DnaG is important in bacterial DNA replication because DNA polymerase cannot initiate the synthesis of a DNA strand, but can only add nucleotides to a preexisting strand. [2] DnaG synthesizes a single RNA primer at the origin of replication. This primer serves to prime leading strand DNA synthesis.

  8. Primosome - Wikipedia

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    The primosome attaches 1-10 RNA nucleotides to the single stranded DNA creating a DNA-RNA hybrid. This sequence of RNA is used as a primer to initiate DNA polymerase III. The RNA bases are ultimately replaced with DNA bases by RNase H nuclease (eukaryotes) or DNA polymerase I nuclease (prokaryotes). DNA Ligase then acts to join the two ends ...

  9. DNA sequencing - Wikipedia

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    The oligonucleotide primer is extended using a DNA polymerase, an enzyme that replicates DNA. Included with the primer and DNA polymerase are the four deoxynucleotide bases (DNA building blocks), along with a low concentration of a chain terminating nucleotide (most commonly a di-deoxynucleotide). The deoxynucleotides lack in the OH group both ...