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Strand Synthesized Nucleotides Added Growing Direction.  Means Continously

Text Nucleotides can only be added to a growing strand in the 5'-3' direction.  This means one strand will always be synthesized continously (the leading strand) and one will always be synthesized diconstinously (the lagging strand).

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