Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305117396
Author: Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 6, Problem 11SQ
Energy that drives the attachment of a
- a. phosphate-group transfers from ATP
- b. DNA polymerase
- c. the nucleotide itself
- d. a and c
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