Any of you guys know how polymerases work?I mean those eukaryotic ones:3I don't want polymerase III becuase they're for bacteria...Idk but I've heard of beta polymerases but what do they do...

Wanna develop my nucleotide characters,but don't know how to start ^_^:DI need some help haha!!

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So what kind of polymerase? dna or rna or both? We worked on this in my biology class for months but I looked it up to check my memory and now I'm just too confused because a lot of it is just beyond me, woops.

Dna polymerase add the matching nucleotides during DNA replication and I think they also proofread, but they don't 'unzip' the dna strands? And RNA polymerase add the matching rna nucleotides to a dna sequence to make a strand of mRNA which is used for protein synthesis. You can fact sheck that, it might be a good idea. Is there anything else, more specifically about them?