POL in Biological Definition

Lagging strand

...he ladder now requires a new half to match it. pol III , the main DNA replication enzyme, can not w...an of the leading strand . On the leading strand, pol III "reads" the DNA and adds nucleotides to it c...reads" the DNA and adds RNA to it in short bursts. pol III lengthens the bursts, forming Okazaki fragmen...

Okazaki fragment

... is a relatively short fragment of DNA that is created by primase and pol III along the lagging strand (see DNA replication ). They are later r...by RNAse H , and the last ribonucleotide is removed by and synthesized by pol I . The nick, or a broken phosphodiester bond remaining between the fragm...

Retrovirus

...fic a nti g en) codes for core and structural proteins of the virus; pol ( pol ymerase) codes for reverse transcriptase , protease and integrase ; and...