The enzymes that catalyze the linking together of RNA nucleotides to form RNA are known as RNA polymerases. With the RNA polymerases, the phosphodiester bonds are formed and link the nucleotides together so as to form a linear chain.
Similarly, the DNA polymerase also catalyzes the DNA replication. The RNA polymerase travels stepwise alongside the DNA, and it unwinds the DNA helix ahead of the active site in order that a new region of the template strand might be exposed by polymerization for complementary base pairing.
The growing RNA chain, in this manner, would be extended by a single nucleotide at a time toward the 5’ to 3’ direction. The substrates happen to be nucleoside triphosphates (CTP, GTP, ATP, and UTP). In the case of DNA replication, there is a provision of energy that is required to drive forward the reaction by hydrolysis of high energy bonds.