Primase synthesizes a 5' to 3' RNA primer to initiate DNA replication for each strand, with each Okazaki fragment requiring its own primer.
Primase synthesizes a 5' to 3' RNA primer to initiate DNA replication for each strand, with each Okazaki fragment requiring its own primer.
| Text | Primase synthesizes an RNA primer in the 5' to 3' direction to start replication of each strand; each Okazaki fragment requires one of these |
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