unzipping the double strand - (Jan/03/2006 )

1. why helicase enzyme is not required for unzipping the DNA double strand during transcription process of protein synthesis, whyle it is required in DNA replication?

2. Why the enzyme DNA polymerase can not start polymerising the DNA without the primer, a short nucleotide sequence?

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