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Taq polymerase is an enzyme that is used by scientists in the polymerase chain reaction because it is stable at high temperatures. It is the polymerase used by a bacteria, Thermus auquatics, which... Taq polymerase is an enzyme that is used by scientists in the polymerase chain reaction because it is stable at high temperatures. Large amounts of a sample of DNA are necessary for molecular and genetic analyses, and the polymerase chain reaction is used to amplify very small amounts of DNA.
In E. coli the main enzyme is DNA polymerase III and the enzyme that replaces the RNA primer with DNA is DNA polymerase I. When the RNA primer has been replaced with DNA, there is a gap between the two Okazaki fragments and this is sealed by DNA ligase. â Back to Review.