Noun. 1. surface tension-a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forces. physical phenomenon-a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy.
The DNA polymerases are enzymes that create DNA molecules by assembling nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA. These enzymes are essential to DNA replication and usually work in pairs to create two identical DNA strands from a single original DNA molecule.he 3'-5' exonuclease activity of the enzyme allows the incorrect base pair to be excised (this activity is known as proofreading). Following base excision, the polymerase can re-insert the correct base and replication can continue forwards.
DNA polymerase II also functions in editing and proofreading mainly in the lagging strand (Kim et al. 1997, Wagner and Nohmi 2000). DNA polymerase III is the main replicative enzyme. DNA polymerase IV and V have large active sites that allow for more base misincorporation, and are therefore more error-prone.he new chain is base-paired with the template, and the new chain and template are antiparallel. DNA polymerase I is the most abundant polymerase and functions to fill gaps in DNA that arise during DNA replication, repair, and recombination. History: DNA polymerase I was discovered by Arthur Kornberg et al. in 1956.