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What enzymatic features of DNA polymerase prevent it from replicating one of the DNA strands at the ends of linear chromosomes

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DNA polymerase is an enzyme with a specific active site complementary to the 3' OH end of the DNA strand in terms of charge, size, orientation and shape thus can only bind to 3' end and cannot bind to 5' end for replication to occur