Biology A-Level
Taq DNA polymerase
What Taq DNA polymerase means in Biology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Taq DNA polymerase
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An enzyme from a thermophilic bacterium that is not denatured at high temperature and joins free nucleotides to the end of each primer.
Topics that use Taq DNA polymerase
- Recombinant DNA technology (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- cDNA and reverse transcriptase
- complementary base pairing
- DNA ligase
- insertional inactivation
- polymerase chain reaction
- post-translational modification
- primers
- promoter region
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