Construction Workers

Construction Workers, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

Put your hard hat on, have a good time
Let me tell you about these amazing enzymes
Let me start off, let me make a case

For that snipper that they call helicase
Unzips the DNA two separate halves
Now in play, the leading strand, and lagging strand

Now the builder, polymerase, is in command
It builds in opposite directions, for each band
3 prime to 5 prime, inverted, opposite spanned

Here comes primase primer just in time
To show the builder where to start
Oh what an art, but how to mend gaps in part

Of the lagging strand, Elmer’s glue, I’m a fan
Ligase patches the Okazaki fragments scanned
DNA replication ends up in the new strand
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This video is a cartoon just giving you the basics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqe4thU-os8&t=66s


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