Under pharmacist supervision, pharmacy technicians: 1  supply medicines to patients, whether on prescription or over the counter. 2  assemble medicines for prescriptions.
A primer is a short nucleic acid sequence that provides a starting point for DNA synthesis. In living organisms, primers are short strands of RNA. A primer must be synthesized by an enzyme called primase, which is a type of RNA polymerase, before DNA replication can occur.
DNA polymerases cannot initiate DNA synthesis - they can only add on to an existing strand of DNA or RNA. The existing strand is said to prime DNA synthesis. RNA polymerases, however, can begin copying a parent strand with no primer - just as they do in transcription of genes. During DNA replication, RNA primers are produced by RNA polymerases in order to provide a starting point for DNA polymerases to extend from.