The enzyme takes all those free-floating nucleotides and lines them up all nice and neat on the template DNA. Depending on how long our target site is, we give the polymerase 1-3 minutes to do its job (the longer the site, the longer it will take to copy it, naturally). We then repeat the process 30-40 times.
British navigator James Cook discovered and charted New Zealand and Australia's Great Barrier Reef on his ship HMB Endeavour, and later disproved the existence of the fabled southern continent Terra Australis. His voyages provided the first accurate map of the Pacific.
Nationality: England. Executive summary: British admiral, slave trader. Sir John Hawkins, or Hawkyns, British admiral, was born at Plymouth in 1532, and belonged to a family of Devonshire shipowners and skippers -- occupations then more closely connected than is now usual.