Category Microbiology

What Makes a Virus, Virus?

In biology, the virus is that one entity that strangles itself on the border of living and non-living. It neither characterizes itself as living nor sits in the coffin. A living system demands the ability to interchange gases, metabolize, and…

What is a polymerase?

A polymerase is an enzyme (EC 2.7.7.6/7/19/48/49) that synthesizes long chains of polymers or nucleic acids. DNA polymerase and RNA polymerase are used to assemble DNA and RNA molecules, respectively, by copying a DNA template strand using base-pairing interactions or RNA…