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What do the enzymes DNA Ligase, Topoisomerase II, and telomerase do?

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DNA ligase: it is an enzyme that catalyzes the joining of two strands of DNA, it forms a phosphodiester bond between them.

Topoisomerase II: it change DNA topology by generating transient DNA double strands breaks.

Telomerase: is resposible of restoring short bits of DNA (telomeres) by addition of guanine-rich repetitive sequences. This is necessary because when cell divides via mitosis, DNA is shortened and important information could be lost .

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