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. 2013 Jun 4;104(11):2331–2341. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.04.042

Table 5.

Types of polymerizing machines, the templates that dictate the sequence of monomers of the polymeric products, and the corresponding function

Machine (Ref.) Template Product Function
DNA-dependent DNA polymerase (84) DNA DNA DNA replication
DNA-dependent RNA polymerase (85,86) DNA RNA transcription
RNA-dependent DNA polymerase (87) RNA DNA reverse transcription
RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (88) RNA RNA RNA replication
Ribosome (89) mRNA protein translation