Fill in the gap in the following paragraph using what you know about the activities of the proteins involved in DNA replication.
"Mitochondrial DNA replication requires a set of proteins similar to those used for the replication of the nuclear genome. However, mitochondria lack a dedicated DNA ... and use the mitochondrial RNA polymerase instead."

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Like the RNA polymerases involved in transcription, primases do not require priming and can synthesize RNA molecules that can be used as primers for DNA synthesis by the replicative DNA polymerases. RNA polymerase is used to create RNA primers for mitochondrial DNA replication.

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