Okazaki fragments are short DNA segments synthesized on the lagging strand due to DNA polymerase's inability to synthesize continuously in the 5' to 3' direction.
Okazaki fragments are short DNA segments synthesized on the lagging strand due to DNA polymerase's inability to synthesize continuously in the 5' to 3' direction.
| Text | Okazaki fragments are produced on the lagging strand to compensate for DNA polymerase's inability to directionally read DNA from the 5' to 3' end; DNA polymerase will put together pieces of this |
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