Suggest a reason for the rather large energy excess available in the insertion of a deoxyribonucleotide into a growing dna molecule. (about three times as much energy as is necessary is available in the reaction dntp dnan → dnan 1 pyrophosphate.)
a. the excess energy is used to produce atp to be used as a energy source in the rest of the cell.
b. the very favorable forward reaction means that the reverse reaction is very unfavorable.
c. the extra energy is used to drive the reassembly of the two separated dna template strands.
d. the energy is used by dna gyrase to supercoil dna