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What organic compound is used in order to break (“unzip”) bonds between the nitrogenous bases so replication can occur?

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Answer:

Helicase

Explanation:

Helicases are enzymes. They break the hydrogen bonds, using ATP energy,  between the nitrogenous bases of the two strands. This allows the DNA polymerase of RNA polymerase to access single-stranded DNA for replication and transcription respectively.

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