Each person normally has one pair of sex chromosomes in each cell. Females have two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y chromosome. Early in embryonic development in females, one of the two X chromosomes is randomly and permanently inactivated in cells other than egg cells.
Lesson Summary. You should now understand that DNA helicase has a very important job to do. It is responsible for opening up our DNA to allow for replication as well as transcription of our DNA. A DNA helicase is an enzyme that functions by melting the hydrogen bonds that hold the DNA into the double helix structure.hat is, until they meet DNA helicase. In order for DNA polymerase (in replication) or RNA polymerase (in transcription) to see the nucleotide bases that are to be used as a template, these hydrogen bonds must be broken to expose the much-needed the nucleotide bases.
Deoxyribonucleic acid is the most basic molecule needed to form life. DNA needs help from enzymes in order to undergo the complicated and time-consuming replication process. Both helicase and DNA polymerase are involved in DNA replication, but the enzymes perform different functions within the replication process.s the DNA strand separates, the DNA polymerase matches nucleotide bases that are missing when the strand separates. Most DNA polymerase also has the ability to correct errors in the strand. As there is more than one type of helicase, there is also more than one type of polymerase.