Wht is the true about the lagging strand during DNA replication
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Wht is the true about the lagging strand during DNA replication
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DNA polymerase is capable of working toward the replication fork only on one strand (the leading strand) whereas on the other strand (the lagging strand) it has to proceed away from the replication fork. A lagging strand starts a delayed replication, and it undergoes replication discontinuously in small fragments. On the lagging strand, DNA synthesis occurs many times as the helix unwinds, and many short fragments called “Okazaki fragments” are formed. DNA ligase ligates the Okazaki fragments together into a single DNA strand.
Lagging strand is the one that helps in the transcription of mRNA.
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