Priming by homopolynucleotides directed the incorporation of the complementary nucleotides. There was competition between the various primers suggesting that a single enzyme is involved in the reactions studied. Poly fluorouridylate was an effective inhibitor of both the DNAand polyribonucleotide-primed reactions but actinomycin D, which inhibits the reaction primed by DNA, had no appreciable effect on the polyribonucleotide-primed reaction.