A primer is a short RNA sequence or DNA sequence that gets sort of the process of replication jump started, and that's just because of the biological properties of DNA polymerase that that primer's needed.

引物是一段短的RNA或者DNA序列,引物是整个复制的起点,因为DNA聚合酶的,生物特性,引物在复制过程是必不可少的

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Certain segments of DNA are being converted into RNA, and whereas in replication, you have to copy the whole genome, the whole - all of the chromosomes, all of the DNA contained in the chromosomes of the cell in order to completely replicate it; transcription only works on particular sequences of DNA.

特定的DNA序列被转录为RNA,在复制的过程中,整条染色体都被复制,包括其中的全部DNA序列,都被分毫不差地复制下来,以保证复制的完整性,而转录过程只发生在特定的DNA序列上

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