Leading/lagging-strand DNA-replication framework

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Replication subtree

DNA polymerases extend only 5'→3'; consequence at a replication fork: leading strand is synthesised continuously toward the fork; lagging strand is synthesised in short Okazaki fragments (1-2 kb in eukaryotes, 100-200 nt prokaryotic) using…

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